Identification of the nature of noise and estimation of its statistical parameters by analysis of local histograms

This paper deals with the problem of identifying the nature of noise and estimating its standard deviation from the observed image in order to be able to apply the most appropriate processing or analysis algorithm afterwards. In this study, we focus our attention on three classes of degraded noise images, the first one being degraded by an additive noise, the second one by a multiplicative noise and the latter by an impulsive noise. First, in order to identify the nature of the noise, we propose a new approach consisting of characterizing each class by a parameter obtained from histograms computed on several homogeneous regions of the observed image. The homogeneous regions are obtained by segmenting images. Then, the estimation of the standard deviation is achieved from the analysis of an histogram of local standard deviations computed on each of the homogeneous regions