Two-dimensional block Kalman filtering for image restoration

Two-dimensional block Kalman filtering for image restoration Azimi-Sadjadi, Mahmood R. ; Wong, Ping Wah This paper is concerned with developing an efficient two-dimensional (2-D) block Kalman filtering for digital image restoration. A new 2-D multiinput, multioutput (MIMO) state-space structure for modeling the image generation process is introduced. This structure is derived by arranging a vector autoregressive (AR) model with a causal quarter-plane region of support in block form. This model takes into account the correlations of the image data in successive neighboring blocks and, as a result, reduces the edge effects prominent in the available Kalman strip filtering techniques. The degradation model for an infinite extent Linear space invariant (LSI) blur and white Gaussian (WG) noise is also modeled by an MIMO block state-space equation stemmed from a single-input single-output (SISO) 2-D state-space structure. The image generation model and the degradation model are combined to yield a composite block-state dynamic structure. The block Kalman filtering equations are obtained for this dynamic structure and then used to compute the suboptimal filter estimates of a noisy and blurred image. Colorado State University. Libraries 1987 text ; image application/pdf ECEmra00023.pdf FACFECEN100503ARTI eng c1987 IEEE

Two-dimensional block Kalman filtering for image restoration

Azimi-Sadjadi, Mahmood R. ; Wong, Ping Wah

This paper is concerned with developing an efficient two-dimensional (2-D) block Kalman filtering for digital image restoration. A new 2-D multiinput, multioutput (MIMO) state-space structure for modeling the image generation process is introduced. This structure is derived by arranging a vector autoregressive (AR) model with a causal quarter-plane region of support in block form. This model takes into account the correlations of the image data in successive neighboring blocks and, as a result, reduces the edge effects prominent in the available Kalman strip filtering techniques. The degradation model for an infinite extent Linear space invariant (LSI) blur and white Gaussian (WG) noise is also modeled by an MIMO block state-space equation stemmed from a single-input single-output (SISO) 2-D state-space structure. The image generation model and the degradation model are combined to yield a composite block-state dynamic structure. The block Kalman filtering equations are obtained for this dynamic structure and then used to compute the suboptimal filter estimates of a noisy and blurred image.

Colorado State University. Libraries

1987

text ; image

application/pdf

ECEmra00023.pdf

FACFECEN100503ARTI

eng

c1987 IEEE