The Application of a New All Phase Contourlet Discrete Transform on Image Denoising[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2008, 13(5): 870-875. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20080505.
This paper proposes a bran new discrete transform called AP Contourlet (All Phase Contourlet)
the multi scale decomposition and reconstruction of which are based on the APDCT (All Phase DCT) sub band filtering and the APIDCT (All Phase IDCT) interpolation for optimizing denoising effection of Contourlet. In addition
a kind of all phase directional filter bank (APDFB) based on DCT is used for directional filtering of the AP Contourlet. The APDFB is possessed of excellent directional selectivity
and reconstruction algorithm is so simple that only adding the directional images is needed. Experiments in image de noising have shown that the performance of the proposed AP Contourlet is obviously superior to the conventional Contourlet both in vision and in signal to noise ratio (SNR).