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Patent No.:

US 8385676 B1

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Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2013

Filed:

Jul. 30, 2009
Applicants:

Marcelo Weinberger, San Jose, CA (US);

Gadiel Seroussi, Cupertino, CA (US);

Erik Ordentlich, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Marcelo Weinberger, San Jose, CA (US);

Gadiel Seroussi, Cupertino, CA (US);

Erik Ordentlich, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/40 (2006.01);
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Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to various enhanced discrete-universal denoisers that have been developed to denoise images and other one-dimensional, two-dimensional or higher-dimensional data sets in which the frequency of occurrence of individual contexts may be too low to gather efficient statistical data or context-based symbol prediction. In these denoisers, image quality, signal-to-noise ratios, or other measures of the effectiveness of denoising that would be expected to increase monotonically over a series of iterations may decrease, due to assumptions underlying the discrete-universal-denoising method losing validity. Embodiments of the present invention apply context-class-based statistics and statistical analysis to determine, on a per-context-class basis, when to at least temporarily terminate denoising iterations on each conditioning class. Each iteration of the iterative methods applies context-based denoising only for those conditioning classes that statistical analysis indicates remain valid for denoising purposes.


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