A Proposed Intelligent Denoising Technique for Spatial Video Denoising for Real-Time Applications

With the widespread use of videos in many fields of our lives, it becomes very important to develop new techniques for video denoising. Spatial video denoising using wavelet transform has been the focus of the current research, as it requires less computation and more suitable for real-time applications. Two specific techniques for spatial video denoising using wavelet transform are considered in this work: 2D Discrete Wavelet Transform (2D DWT) and 2D Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (2D DTCWT). We performed an analytical analysis to investigate the performance of each of these techniques. From this analysis, we found out that each of these techniques has its advantages and disadvantages. The first technique gives less quality at high levels of noise but consumes less time, whereas the second gives high quality video while consuming a large amount of time. In this work, we introduce an intelligent denoising system that makes a tradeoff between the quality of the denoised video and the time required for denoising. The system first estimates the noise level in the video frame then chooses the proper denoising technique to apply on the frame. The simulation results show that the proposed system is more suitable for real-time applications where time is critical, while still giving high quality videos at low to moderate levels of noise.