A DIRECTIONAL TOTAL VARIATION

Bayram İ., Kamaşak M. E.

20th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Bucharest, Romania, 27 - 31 August 2012, pp.265-269 identifier

  • Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
  • City: Bucharest
  • Country: Romania
  • Page Numbers: pp.265-269
  • Istanbul Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Total variation (TV) is an isotropic image prior that penalizes the abrupt changes in the images in all directions. In this paper, we modify TV so as to make it more suitable for images with a dominant direction. Specifically, we describe the implementation of a directional TV, and we demonstrate its utility for image denoising. We show that image denoising with the directional TV prior can be more effective compared to the regular (isotropic) TV for images with a dominant direction.