Super-resolution total-variation decoding of JPEG-compressed image data

Takahiro Saito; Takashi Komatsu

doi:10.1117/12.702977

20 February 2007 Super-resolution total-variation decoding of JPEG-compressed image data

Takahiro Saito, Takashi Komatsu

Proceedings Volume 6502, Digital Photography III; 65020G (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.702977
Event: Electronic Imaging 2007, 2007, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

In a digital camera, its output image is sometimes corrupted by additive noise heavily and its noisy image is often compressed with the JPEG encoder. When the coding rate of the JPEG encoder is not high enough, in a JPEG-decoded image there appear noticeable artifacts such as the blocking, the ringing, and the false color artifacts. In the high ISOsensitivity case, even if the coding rate is very high, camera's noise will produce noticeably annoying artifacts in a JPEG-decoded image. This paper presents a restoration-type decoding approach that recovers a quality-improved image from the JPEG-compressed data, while not only suppressing the occurrence of the coding artifacts particular to the JPEG compression but also removing the camera's noise to some extent. This decoding approach is a kind of superresolution image-restoration approach based on the TV (Total Variation) regularization; to reduce the ringing artifacts near sharp edges it selectively restores the DCT coefficients truncated by the JPEG compression, whereas in an originally smooth image region it flattens unnecessary signal variations to eliminate the blocking artifacts and the camera's noise. Extending the standard ROF (Rudin-Osher-Fetami) framework of the TV image restoration, in this paper we construct the super-resolution approach to the JPEG decoding. By introducing the JPEG-compressed data into the fidelity term of the energy functional and adopting a nonlinear cost function constrained by the JPEG-compressed data softly, we define a new energy functional whose minimization gives the super-resolution JPEG decoding.

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Takahiro Saito and Takashi Komatsu "Super-resolution total-variation decoding of JPEG-compressed image data", Proc. SPIE 6502, Digital Photography III, 65020G (20 February 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.702977

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