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Abstract

A novel PDE-based image denoising approach is proposed in this paper. One designs here a nonlinear filter for image noise reduction based on the diffusion flow generated by the porous media equation , where is a nonlinear continuous function of the form , . With respect to standard 2D Gaussian smoothing and some nonlinear PDE-based filters, this one is more efficient to remove noise from degraded images and also to reduce “staircasing” effects and preserve the image edges.