Sparse Approach in Filtering of Color Images Corrupted by Mixture Noises

A novel filtering approach is presented in denoising in the color images contaminated by mixture of additive-impulsive noises. Novel framework consists of three principal stages: impulsive noise suppression that is performed detecting pixels corrupted by impulsive noise and then, filtering found spikes by a variant of median filter; during second stage, original additive noise suppression filter is employed in Wavelet transform domain via a sparse representation and 3D-filtering; finally, nondesirable effects obtained in an image during previous stages are processed to correct fine details. In case of multiplicative noise suppression, the designed denoising scheme uses 3D homomorphic sparse processing stage and post-filtering procedure. Evaluation of novel approach in denoising complex distortions has been performed using objective criteria (PSNR and SSIM measures) and subjective perception via human visual system confirming their better performance in comparison with state-of-theart techniques.