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dc.contributor.advisorXiong, Zixiang
dc.creatorWang, Bo
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-21T15:42:01Z
dc.date.available2018-09-21T15:42:01Z
dc.date.created2017-12
dc.date.issued2017-12-01
dc.date.submittedDecember 2017
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/169609
dc.description.abstractIn the past decade, much progress has been made in image denoising due to the use of low-rank representation and sparse coding, the performance of image denoising has been boosted drastically by nonlocal algorithms and sparse coding techniques. In the meanwhile, state-of-the-art algorithms also rely on an iteration step to boost the denoising performance. In this dissertation, first, we take a nonlocal approach to image denoising and formulate the problem as one of collaborative least minimum mean square error (LMMSE) estimations from grouped image patches. We show that our optimal LMMSE solution amounts to shrinking the singular values of the matrix representation of the grouped image patches. This interpretation of our solution allows us to relate our estimation-theoretic approach to other nonlocal algorithms and sparse coding techniques in the literature. In addition, we develop an iterative algorithm to find the best LMMSE estimate. Experimental results show that our proposed denoising algorithm achieves better peak-signal-noise-ratio (PSNR) and subjective performance than the state of the art. Second, we advanced the boosting step from fixed or non-adaptive to adaptive, started from the statistical analysis of boosting techniques, prove the advantage of adaptive boosting approach, then performed rank-1 based fixed-point analysis, guided by our analysis, we develop the first adaptive boosting (AB) algorithm, whose convergence is guaranteed. Preliminary results on the same image dataset show that AB uniformly outperforms existing denoising algorithms on every image and at each noise level, with more gains at higher noise levels.en
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dc.subjectimage denoisingen
dc.subjectadpative boostingen
dc.titleADAPATIVE BOOSTING IN NONLOCAL IMAGE DENOISING ALGORITHMSen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.departmentElectrical and Computer Engineeringen
thesis.degree.disciplineElectrical Engineeringen
thesis.degree.grantorTexas A & M Universityen
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBraga-Neto, Ulisses
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLi, Peng
dc.contributor.committeeMemberCaverlee, James
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dc.date.updated2018-09-21T15:42:02Z
local.etdauthor.orcid0000-0002-8111-2279


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