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Color Image Enhancement using Discrete Wavelet Transform
Abstract
Noise filters tend to blur image detail, while filters for image sharpening tend to increase noise. So, cascading the two filters does not always give the best performance. We present an integrated filter that reduces noise or sharpens details in a noisy signal, depending on local image statistics. Most traditional noise reduction methods tend to oversuppress high-frequency details. For overcoming this problem we first decompose the input image into flat and edge regions,and remove noise using the alpha map computed from wavelet transform coefficients of LH, HL, and HH bands. After removing noise in the flat region, we further remove noise in edge regions by adaptively shrinking wavelet coefficients based on the entropy. Moreover, we present a new directional transform using wavelet basis and Gaussian low pass filters. The wavelet coefficients of edge regions are inverse transformed by using the filtered wavelet bases. Experimental results show the proposed algorithm can reduce noise without losing sharp details and is suitable for commercial low-cost
imaging systems, such as digital cameras and surveillance system.
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