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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2005
Itschak Weissman, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Erik Ordentlich, San Jose, CA (US);
Gadiel Seroussi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Marcelo Weinberger, San Jose, CA (US);
Sergio Verdu, Princeton, NJ (US);
Giovanni Motta, Dana Point, CA (US);
Itschak Weissman, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Erik Ordentlich, San Jose, CA (US);
Gadiel Seroussi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Marcelo Weinberger, San Jose, CA (US);
Sergio Verdu, Princeton, NJ (US);
Giovanni Motta, Dana Point, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A discrete, universal denoising method is applied to a noisy signal for which the source alphabet is typically large. The method exploits a priori information regarding expected characteristics of the signal. In particular, using characteristics of a continuous tone image such as continuity and small-scale symmetry allows definition of context classes containing large numbers of image contexts having similar statistical characteristics. Use of the context classes allows extraction of more reliable indications of the characteristic of a clean signal.