Image deconvolution under Poisson noise using SURE-LET approach
Feng Xue, Jiaqi Liu, Gang Meng, Jing Yan, Min Zhao · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2015
We propose an image deconvolution algorithm when the data is contaminated by Poisson noise. By minimizing Stein's unbiased risk estimate (SURE), the SURE-LET method was firstly proposed to deal with Gaussian noise corruption. Our key contribution is to demonstrate that the SURE-LET algorithm is also applicable for Poisson noisy image and proposed an efficient algorithm. The formulation of SURE requires knowledge of Gaussian noise variance. We experimentally found a simple and direct link between the noise variance estimated by median absolute difference (MAD) method and the optimal one that leads to the best deconvolution performance in terms of mean squared error (MSE). Extensive experiments show that this optimal noise variance works satisfactorily for a wide range of natural images.