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1 Introduction
Over the last decade, there has been abundant interest in the wavelet methods for
image denoising. However, the wavelet transform isnt suitable for describing the
signals, which have high dimensional singularities. So some characters like edges will
be blurred after filtering by wavelet transform.
To overcome the shortcomings of the wavelet transform, and to detect, represent
and process high-dimensional data, Multi-scale geometric analysis has been further
developed [1]. Among them, Donoho et al.[4] proposed the concept of curvelets,
which express directly the edge of the image, and can be better suited to the
characteristics of the image. Meanwhile, the curvelet transform is anisotropy, which
can provide more information for image processing. However, the curvelets dont
work well in the smooth areas. So Saevarsson et al.[5][6] presented a new method,
adaptive combined method (ACM), which combined the curvelet transform and the
wavelet transform. This method has many merits in image denoising. But there are
still many problems unsolved.
This paper firstly introduces the stationary wavelet transform and curvelet
transform, and then proposes a new method to improve some problems in ACM.
Experimental results indicate that the performance of the proposed combined method
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is more efficient than that of the stationary wavelet transform, the curvelet transform
and ACM.
where g (2 j k ) and h(2 j k ) are the scale expands of g (k ) and h(k ) , that is to
say, insert 2 1 zeros into the filter coefficients. And the reconstruction is obtained
j
by
ci (n) = h (2 j n k ) ci +1 (n) + gi (2 j n k ) wi +1 (n) (2)
k k