Array (Dec 2021)

Shock filter coupled with a high-order PDE for additive noise removal and image quality enhancement

  • Simo Thierry,
  • Welba Colince,
  • Ntsama Eloundou Pascal,
  • Noura Alexendre

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12
p. 100105

Abstract

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We are interested in repairing blurry images degraded by additive noise. We present a new filter for image enhancement based on the combination of a shock filter with a fourth order diffusion equation. The algorithm that we propose eliminates not only the blurry but also the noise. The control of the diffusion weight and that of the enhancement of the model is done by a parameter. After experimentation on some test images and on some real images of degraded old documents, the results obtained are satisfactory compared to certain models in the literature.

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