Signal-dependent noise modeling, estimation, and removal for digital imaging sensors

Matlab software

ClipPoisGaus_stdEst2D Poissonian-Gaussian noise estimation for single-image raw-data ver. 2.32, released 10 June 2015 (for Matlab R2010 or later) Fully automatic estimation of noise parameters from a single image with clipped or non-clipped data corrupted by signal-dependent noise.

ClipPoisGaus_denoising Denoising of clipped images (e.g., raw data) ver. 2.11b, released 13 April 2016 (for Matlab R2010 or later) Fully automatic denoising and debiasing of clipped images with Poissonian-Gaussian noise using variance-stabilization and homoskedastic filtering.

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Sample raw-data images

Images are stored in both proprietary format (e.g., .CR2, .RAF, .NEF) and 16-bit TIFF format. Warning: LARGE FILES !
Canon EOS 350D 99 Mbytes
Canon EOS 400D 17 Mbytes
Canon EOS 40D 212 Mbytes
Canon PowerShot G10 182 Mbytes	Estimated curves: ISO 80 100 200 400 800 1600
Fujifilm FinePix S5600/S5200 19 Mbytes	Matlab function for extracting color components in rectangular form from Fuijfilm SuperCCD RAW data (which is tilted of 45 degrees)  rawimread_fuji_tiff.m
Fujifilm FinePix S9600/S9100 218 Mbytes
Nikon D80 36 Mbytes
Nikon D300 385 Mbytes	Report on "Dependence of the parameters of digital image noise model on ISO number, temperature and shutter time" by Petteri Ojala, prepared for the 2008 TUT/Nokia Mobile Imaging course.
TIFF images have been obtained from the original proprietary raw format using DCRAW utility (with parameters -D -4 -T -j -v ).

References

L. Azzari and A. Foi, “Gaussian-Cauchy mixture modeling for robust signal-dependent noise estimation”, Proc. 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, Signal Process. (ICASSP 2014), Florence, Italy, May 2014.

Foi, A., “Clipped noisy images: heteroskedastic modeling and practical denoising”, Signal Processing, vol. 89, no. 12, pp. 2609-2629, December 2009.

Foi, A., “Practical denoising of clipped or overexposed noisy images”, Proc. 16th European Signal Process. Conf., EUSIPCO 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2008.

Boracchi, G., and A. Foi, “Multiframe raw-data denoising based on block-matching and 3-D filtering for low-light imaging and stabilization”, Proc. Int. Workshop on Local and Non-Local Approx. in Image Process., LNLA 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2008.

Foi, A., M. Trimeche, V. Katkovnik, and K. Egiazarian, “Practical Poissonian-Gaussian noise modeling and fitting for single-image raw-data”, IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 17, no. 10, pp. 1737-1754, October 2008.

Foi, A., S. Alenius, V. Katkovnik, and K. Egiazarian, “Noise measurement for raw data of digital imaging sensors by automatic segmentation of non-uniform targets”, IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 1456-1461, October 2007.