International Journal of Research and Innovation on Science, Engineering and Technology (IJRISET)

International Journal of Research and Innovation in

Electronics and Communication Engineering (IJRIECE)
IMAGE ENHANCEMENT AIDED DENOISING USING DUAL TREE COMPLEX WAVELET
TRANSFORM
K. Mounika1, S. Rehana Banu2.
1 Research Scholar,Department of Electronics AndCommunication Engineering, Chiranjeevi Reddy Institute of Engineering and Technology
Anantapur, A. P, India.
2 Assistant Professor,Department of Electronics AndCommunication Engineering, Chiranjeevi Reddy Institute of Engineering and Technology
Anantapur, A. P, India.

Abstract
This paper presents a novel way to reduce noise introduced or exacerbated by image enhancement methods, in particular algorithms based on the random spray sampling technique, but not only. According to the nature of sprays,
output images of spray-based methods tend to exhibit noise with unknown statistical distribution. To avoid inappropriate assumptions on the statistical characteristics of noise, a different one is made. In fact, the non-enhanced image is
considered to be either free of noise or affected by non-perceivable levels of noise. Taking advantage of the higher sensitivity of the human visual system to changes in brightness, the analysis can be limited to the luma channel of both the
non-enhanced and enhanced image. Also, given the importance of directional content in human vision, the analysis is
performed through the dual-tree complex wavelet transform , lanczos interpolator and edge preserving smoothing filters.
Unlike the discrete wavelet transform, the DTWCT allows for distinction of data directionality in the transform space.
For each level of the transform, the standard deviation of the non-enhanced image coefficients is computed across the
six orientations of the DTWCT, then it is normalized.
Keywords: dual-tree complex wavelet transform (DTWCT), lanczos interpolator, edge preserving smoothing filters.
*Corresponding Author:
K. Mounika,
Research Scholar, Department of Electronics AndCommunication Engineering, Chiranjeevi Reddy Institute of
Engineering and Technology,Anantapur, A. P, India.
Email: mounika.rishi@gmail.com.
Year of publication: 2016
Review Type: peer reviewed
Volume: I, Issue : I
Citation: K. Mounika, Research Scholar"Image Enhancement Aided Denoising Using Dual Tree Complex Wavelet
Transform" International Journal of Research and Innovation on Science, Engineering and Technology (IJRISET)
(2016) 06-09

INTRODUCTION
The central idea to wavelets is to analyze (a signal) according to scale. Imagine a function that oscillates like a
wave in a limited portion of time or space and vanishes
outside of it. The wavelets are such functions: wave-like
but localized. One chooses a particular wavelet, stretches
it ( to meet a given scale) and shifts it, while looking into
its correlations with the analyzed signal. This analysis is
similar to observing the displayed signal (e.g., printed or
shown on the screen) from various distances. The signal
correlations with wavelets stretched to large scales reveal
gross (rude) features, while at small scales fine signal
structures are discovered. It is therefore often said that
the wavelet analysis is to see both the forest and the trees.
In such a scanning through a signal, the scale and the
position can vary continuously or in discrete steps. The
latter case is of practical interest in this thesis. From an
engineering point of view, the discrete wavelet analysis is

a two channel digital filter bank (composed of the lowpass

and the highpass filters), iterated on the lowpass output.
The lowpass filtering yields an approximation of a signal (at a given scale), while the highpass (more precisely,
bandpass) filtering yields the details that constitute the
difference between the two successive approximations. A
family of wavelets is then associated with the bandpass,
and a family of scaling functions with the lowpass filters.
This concept is explained in Section. At the moment, we
address only the general aspects.
several wavelets are shown that are obtained from the
mother wavelet (x) = (1 2x2)ex2; this wavelet is the
second derivative of a Gaussian function and is called the
Mexican hat. Its first use was in computer vision, for multiscale edge detection.
The origins of the wavelet analysis can be traced to the
1909 Haar wavelet (that was not called by that name
then) and various atomic decompositions in the history
of mathematics. For a comprehensive review, see [Meyer93, p.13-31]. The current use of the name wavelet is
due to Grosmans and Morlets work on geophysical signal
processing, which led to the formalization of the continuous wavelet transform [Grosman84]. In the development
of wavelets, the ideas from

A few wavelets obtained from the Mexican hat mother wavelet

(x) = (1 2x2)ex2.

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LITERATURE
Although the field of image enhancement has been active
since before digital imagery achieved a consumer status,
it has never stopped evolving. The present work introduces a novel multi-resolution denoising method, tailored to
address a specific image quality problem that arises when
using image enhancement algorithms based on random
spray sampling. While inspired by the peculiar problem
of such methods, the proposed approach also works for
other image enhancement methods that either introduce
or exacerbate noise. This work builds and expands on a
previous article by Fierro et al. [1].

!(t ). When foolishly carefully chosen and combined with

changes of a real-valued low-pass scaling function "(t ),
they system an orthonormal beginning enlargement for
one-dimensional (1-D) real-valued continuous-time signals [20]. That is, any determinate drive analog signal
x(t ) can be disintegrated in terms of wavelets and scaling
functions via
The scaling coefficients c(n) and wavelet coefficients d( j,
n) are considered via the middle products.

Due to the peaked nature of sprays, a common sideeffect

of image enhancement methods that utilize spray sampling is the introduction of undesired noise in the output
images. The magnitude and statistical characteristics of
said noise are not known a-priori, instead they depend on
several factors, like image content, spray properties and
algorithm parameters.
Among image denoising algorithms, multi-resolution
methods have a long history.
Independently of the specific transform used, the general
assumption in multi-resolution shrinkage is that image
data gives rise to sparse coefficients in the transform
space. Thus, denoising can be achieved by compressing (shrinking) those coefficients that compromise data
sparsity. Such process is usually improved by an elaborate statistical analysis of the dependencies between coefficients at different scales [17-20]. Yet, while effective,
traditional multi-resolution methods are designed to only
remove one particular type of noise (e.g. Gaussian noise).
Furthermore, only the input image is assumed to be given. Due to the unknown statistical properties of the noise
introduced by the use of sprays, traditional approaches
do not find the expected conditions, and thus their action
becomes much less effective.
The Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform
The dual-tree difficult wavelet transform (CWT) is a somewhat existing improvement to the discrete wavelet transform (DWT), with dynamic additional things: It is almost
shifting invariant and directionally selective in two and
progressive dimensions. It scopes this with a idleness
factor of only 2d for d-dimensional signals, which is significantly lessor than the undecimated DWT. The multidimensional (M-D) dual-tree CWT is non discrete however is created on a computationally operative, divisible
filter bank (FB). This tutorial debates the principle behind
schedule the dual-tree transform, shows how difficult
wavelets with decent things can be planned, and displays
a kind of taxes in signal and image processing. We usage
the difficult number symbol C in CWT to avoid misperception with the often-used acronym CWT for the (different)
continuous wavelet transform.
THE WAVELET TRANSFORM AND MULTISCALE ANALYSIS
Since its progress 20 years ago, the wavelet variation has
been misused with unlimited achievement through the
scope of signal dealing out habits, in the development,
regularly redefining the state-of-the-art arrangement [10],
[11]. In a outer layer, the DWT changes the really vacillating sinusoidal root drives of the Fourier transform using
a static of in the vicinity fluctuating basis meanings called
wavelets. In the standard site, the wavelets are pressed
and moved types of a vital, real-valued band pass wavelet

They arrange for a time-frequency analysis of the signal

by computing its frequency relaxed (organised by the
scale factor j) at dissimilar times (organised by the time
shift n). There occurs a same effective, right time difficulty
algorithm to compute the coefficients c(n) and d( j, n) from
a fine-scale demonstration of the signal (repeatedly purely
N examples) and vice versa created on dual octave-band,
discrete-time FBs that recursively placed on a discretetime low-pass filter h0(n), a greater-pass filter h1(n), and
up sample and down sample processes. Grasp Real-Valued Detached Wavelet Transform and Filter Banks for
further contextual on wavelets, FBs, and their plan.
EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS

Proposed Block diagram

Input Low contrast noisy image.

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Contrast enhanced noisy image

Noise removal output with dtcwt

Bilateral filter output

Final contrast enhanced output

CONCLUSION
This project presents a noise reduction method based
on Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform coefficients
shrinkage. The main point of novelty is represented by its
application in post-processing on the output of an image
enhancement method (both the non enhanced image and
the enhanced one are required) and the lack of assumptions on the statistical distribution of noise. On the other
hand, the non-enhanced image is supposed to be noisefree or affected by non perceivable noise.
Bilateral filter output

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K. Mounika,

Research Scholar,
Department of Electronics AndCommunication Engineering,
Chiranjeevi Reddy Institute of Engineering and Technology,
Anantapur, A. P, India.

S. Rehana Banu,

Assistant Professor,
Department of Electronics AndCommunication Engineering,
Chiranjeevi Reddy Institute of Engineering and Technology,
Anantapur, A. P, India.

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