Visual information transmitted in the form of digital images is becoming a major method of communication in the modern age. All digital images contain some degree of noise. Removing noise from the original signal is still a challenging problem for researchers. In this paper, the non-local denoising approach presented by Buades et al. is compared and analyzed by Fast nonlocal means algorithm. Th...

Recording devices whether analog or digital, have traits which make them susceptible to noise. In selecting a noise reduction algorithm, one must weigh several factors. Image denoising is defined as a method to recover a true image from an observed noisy image and is applied in display systems to improve the quality of image. One of the popular denoising methods, NLM, produces the quality of im...

Non-local means (NLM) is a popular image denoising scheme for reducing additive Gaussian noise. It uses a patch-based approach to find similar regions within a search neighborhood and estimates the denoised pixel based on the weighted average of all pixels in the neighborhood. All weights are considered for averaging, irrespective of the value of the weights. This paper proposes an improved var...

Non-local means (NLM) is a popular image denoising scheme for reducing additive Gaussian noise. It uses a patch-based approach to find similar regions within a search neighborhood and estimate the denoised pixel based on the weighted average of all the pixels in the neighborhood. All the pixels are considered for averaging, irrespective of the value of their weights. This thesis proposes an imp...

Noise filtering is a common step in image processing, and is particularly effective in improving the subjective quality of images. A large number of techniques have been developed, many of which concentrate on the problem of removing noise without damaging small structures such as edges. One recent approach that demonstrates empirical merit is the non-local means (NLM) algorithm. However, in or...

Due to intensity overlaps between interested objects caused by noise and intensity inhomogeneity, image segmentation is still an open problem. In this paper, we propose a framework to segment images in the well-known image model in which intensities of the observed image are viewed as a product of the true image and the bias field. In the proposed framework, a CUDA accelerated non-local means d...

The seismic reflection method is one of the most important methods in geophysical exploration. There are three stages a exploration survey: acquisition, processing, and interpretation. This paper focuses on pre-processing tool, Non-Local Means (NLM) filter algorithm, which powerful technique that can significantly suppress noise data. However, domain NLM algorithm whole dataset 3D data being ve...