Joint Denoising and Magnification of Noisy Low-Resolution Textual Images
Résumé
This paper addresses the problem of recovering
a noise-free High-Resolution (HR) version of a noisy Low-
Resolution (LR) textual image. While there has been various
works on the resolution enhancement of document images,
existing magnification systems assume that the input image is
not corrupted by noise. In reality, LR image is often noisy,
which limits the efficiency of existing magnification systems. In
order tackle such a problem, we propose in this paper a joint
denoising and magnification system based on sparse coding which
suggests that an input signal could be represented by a linear
combinaison of few elements from a suitable dictionary. The
proposed system uses online and offline learned dictionaries. In
order to take benefit of the non-local self-similarity assumption
in textual images, the online learned dictionaries are trained on a
clustered dataset of image patches selected from the input image
and used for denoising purpose. The offline learned dictionaries
are trained on an external LR/HR image patch pair dataset and
employed for magnification purpose. These offline and offline
learned dictionaries are selected adaptively for each image patch
of the input LR noisy image to generate its corresponding HR
denoised version. The performance of the proposed system is
evaluated visually and quantitatively on different LR noisy textual
images and promising results are achieved when compared with
other existing systems and conventional approaches dealing with
such kind of images.