rofdenoise.m

Simple and easy-read code for a denoising method.

%% ROFdenoise
%
%  This denoising method is based on total-variation, originally proposed by
%  Rudin, Osher and Fatemi. In this particular case fixed point iteration
%  is utilized.
%
%  For the included image, a fairly good result is obtained by using a
%  theta value around 12-16. A possible addition would be to analyze the
%  residual with an entropy function and add back areas that have a lower
%  entropy, i.e. there are some correlation between the surrounding pixels.
% 
%  Philippe Magiera & Carl L鰊dahl, 2008
%

function A = ROFdenoise(Image, Theta)

[Image_h Image_w] = size(Image); 
g = 1; dt = 1/4; nbrOfIterations = 5;
Image = double(Image);

p = zeros(Image_h,Image_w,2);
d = zeros(Image_h,Image_w,2);
div_p = zeros(Image_h,Image_w);

for i = 1:nbrOfIterations
    for x = 1:Image_w
        for y = 2:Image_h-1
            div_p(y,x) = p(y,x,1) - p(y-1,x,1);
        end
    end

    for x = 2:Image_w-1
        for y = 1:Image_h
            div_p(y,x) = div_p(y,x) + p(y,x,2) - p(y,x-1,2);
        end
    end
    
    % Handle boundaries
    div_p(:,1) = p(:,1,2);
    div_p(:,Image_w) = -p(:,Image_w-1,2);
    div_p(1,:) = p(1,:,1);
    div_p(Image_h,:) = -p(Image_h-1,:,1);

    % Update u
    u = Image-Theta*div_p;

    % Calculate forward derivatives
    du(:,:,2) = u(:,[2:Image_w, Image_w])-u;
    du(:,:,1) = u([2:Image_h, Image_h],:)-u;

    % Iterate
    d(:,:,1) = (1+(dt/Theta/g).*abs(sqrt(du(:,:,1).^2+du(:,:,2).^2)));
    d(:,:,2) = (1+(dt/Theta/g).*abs(sqrt(du(:,:,1).^2+du(:,:,2).^2)));
    p = (p-(dt/Theta).*du)./d;
    
end

A = u;