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IMAGE AND VIDEO ENHANCEMENT THROUGH MOTION BASED
INTERPOLATION AND NONLOCAL-MEANS DENOISING TECHNIQUES
by
Tanaphol Thaipanich
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Ful llment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING)
May 2010
Copyright 2010 Tanaphol Thaipanich
Object Description
| Title | Image and video enhancement through motion based interpolation and nonlocal-means denoising techniques |
| Author | Thaipanich, Tanaphol |
| Author email | thaipani@usc.edu; tanapholthai@hotmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Electrical Engineering |
| School | Viterbi School of Engineering |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-12-10 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-03-10 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Kuo, C.-C. Jay |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Leahy, Richard M. Golubchik, Leana |
| Abstract | In this research, we investigate advanced image and video enhancement techniques based on motion based interpolation and nonlocal-means (NL-means) denoising. The dissertation consists of three main results. Two video processing applications; namely, video error concealment (EC) and frame rate up-conversion (FRUC), based on motion analysis have been examined. Then, an improved NL-means algorithm has been proposed for image denoising. They are detailed below.; In the first part of this study, low-complexity error concealment techniques are studied. The boundary matching algorithm (BMA) is an attractive choice for video error concealment due to its low complexity. Here, we examine a variant of BMA called the outer boundary matching algorithm (OBMA). Although BMA and OBMA are similar in their design principle, it is empirically observed that OBMA outperforms BMA by a significant margin (typically, 0.5dB or higher) while maintaining the same level of complexity. We first explain the superior performance of OBMA, and conclude that OBMA provides an excellent tradeoff between the complexity and the quality of concealed video for a wide range of test video sequences and error conditions. In addition, we present two extensions of OBMA, i.e. refined local search and multiple boundary layers. These extensions can be employed to enhance the performance of OBMA at slightly higher computational complexity. Finally, the effect of the flexible macroblock ordering (FMO) on the performance of several EC algorithms is examined.; In the second part of this work, two challenging situations for video frame rate up-conversion (FRUC) are identified and analyzed; namely, when the input video clip has abrupt illumination change and a low frame rate. Then, a low-complexity processing technique and robust FRUC algorithm are proposed to address these two issues. The proposed algorithm utilizes a translational motion vector model of the first- and the second-orders and detects the continuity of these motion vectors. Additionally, a spatial smoothness criterion is employed to improve perceptual quality of interpolated frames. The superior performance of the proposed algorithm has been extensively tested and representative examples are given in this work.; In the third part of this research, an adaptive image denoising technique based on the NL-means algorithm is proposed. The proposed method employs the singular value decomposition (SVD) method and the K-means clustering (K-means) technique to achieve robust block classification in noisy images. Then, a local window is adaptively adjusted to match the local property of a block. Finally, a rotated block matching algorithm based on the alignment of dominant orientation is adopted for similarity matching. In addition, the noise level can be accurately estimated using block classification and the Laplacian operator. Experimental results are given to demonstrate the superior denoising performance of the proposed adaptive NL-means (ANL-means) denoising technique over various image denoising benchmarks in term of both PSNR and perceptual quality comparison, where images corrupted by additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and Rician noise are both tested. |
| Keyword | adaptive nonlocal-means; frame rate up-conversion; image denoising; motion based interpolation; video error concealment |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2871 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Thaipanich, Tanaphol |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Thaipanich-3460 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Thaipanich-3460.pdf |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Full text | IMAGE AND VIDEO ENHANCEMENT THROUGH MOTION BASED INTERPOLATION AND NONLOCAL-MEANS DENOISING TECHNIQUES by Tanaphol Thaipanich A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Ful llment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING) May 2010 Copyright 2010 Tanaphol Thaipanich |
