In this paper, a novel remote sensing image enhancement technique based on a non-local means filter in a nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) domain is proposed. The overall flow of the approach can be divided into the following steps: Firstly, the image is decomposed into one low-frequency sub-band and several high-frequency sub-bands with NSCT. Secondly, contrast stretching is adopted to...

We propose a new image denoising algorithm when the data is contaminated by a Poisson noise. As in the Non-Local Means filter, the proposed algorithm is based on a weighted linear combination of the observed image. But in contract to the latter where the weights are defined by a Gaussian kernel, we propose to choose them in an optimal way. First some ”oracle” weights are defined by minimizing a...

In this paper, we investigate the use of the non-local means (NLM) denoising approach in the context of image deblurring and restoration. We propose a novel deblurring approach that utilizes a non-local regularization constraint. Our interest in the NLM principle is its potential to suppress noise while effectively preserving edges and texture detail. Our approach leads to an iterative cost fun...