A NOVEL APPROACH FOR NOISE REDUCTION IN THE GABOR TIME-FREQUENCY DOMAIN

Behnaz Pourebrahimi, Jan C. A. van der Lubbe

2009

Abstract

In this paper, a noise reduction technique is introduced based on the Gabor time-frequency transform. In the proposed approach, noise is removed using low pass filters locally in the transform domain. Finding the cut-off frequency for the low pass filters in such a way that image does not loose its features, is an important issue. The optimal cut-off frequency of the low pass filters are computed in an iterative method for each sub-block of the image. The followed approach, besides showing a good performance in removing noise, it also performs well in preserving image features.

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Pourebrahimi B. and C. A. van der Lubbe J. (2009). A NOVEL APPROACH FOR NOISE REDUCTION IN THE GABOR TIME-FREQUENCY DOMAIN . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-69-2, pages 22-27. DOI: 10.5220/0001768000220027


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp09,
author={Behnaz Pourebrahimi and Jan C. A. van der Lubbe},
title={A NOVEL APPROACH FOR NOISE REDUCTION IN THE GABOR TIME-FREQUENCY DOMAIN},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={22-27},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001768000220027},
isbn={978-989-8111-69-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - A NOVEL APPROACH FOR NOISE REDUCTION IN THE GABOR TIME-FREQUENCY DOMAIN
SN - 978-989-8111-69-2
AU - Pourebrahimi B.
AU - C. A. van der Lubbe J.
PY - 2009
SP - 22
EP - 27
DO - 10.5220/0001768000220027