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Random cascades on wavelet trees and their use in analyzing and modeling natural images

Proc. SPIE 4119, 229 (2000); http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.408598

Monday 31 July 2000
San Diego, CA, USA
Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing VIII
Akram Aldroubi, Andrew F. Laine, Michael A. Unser
Martin J. Wainwright and Alan S. Willsky

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)

Eero P. Simoncelli

New York Univ. (USA)

We develop a new class of non-Gaussian multiscale stochastic processes defined by random cascades on trees of wavelet or other multiresolution coefficients. These cascades reproduce a rich semi-parametric class of random variables known as Gaussian scale mixtures. We demonstrate that this model class can accurately capture the remarkably regular and non- Gaussian features of natural images in a parsimonious fashion, involving only a small set of parameters. In addition, this model structure leads to efficient algorithms for image processing. In particular, we develop a Newton- like algorithm for MAP estimation that exploits very fast algorithm for linear-Gaussian estimation on trees, and hence is efficient. On the basis of this MAP estimator, we develop and illustrate a denoising technique that is based on a global prior model, and preserves the structure of natural images.

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Online May 20, 2003
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Martin J. Wainwright, Eero P. Simoncelli and Alan S. Willsky, "Random cascades on wavelet trees and their use in analyzing and modeling natural images", Proc. SPIE 4119, 229 (2000); http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.408598

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