Dual learning based compression noise reduction in the texture domain

Abstract

Compression noise reduction is similar to the super-resolution problem in terms of the restoration of lost high-frequency information. Because learning-based approaches have proven successful in the past in terms of addressing the super-resolution problem, we focus on a learning-based technique for compressed image denoising. In this process, it is important to search for the exact prior in a training set. The proposed method utilizes two different databases (i.e., a noisy and a denoised database), which work together in a complementary way. The denoised images from the dual databases are combined into a final denoised one. Additionally, the input noisy image is decomposed into structure and texture components, and only the latter is denoised because most noise tends to exist within the texture component. Experimental results show that the proposed method can reduce compression noise while reconstructing the original information that was lost in the compression process, especially for texture regions. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.