Mandrill Test Case

White noise with a std. dev. of 35 will be added to the Mandrill image. The denoising methods will attempt to remove the added noise. The main challenges of the image will be the eyes and hair. The hair provides a great example of a natural texture.

Mandrill image
Add Gaussian white noise with std. dev. = 35


Gaussian filter

The denoised image is blurry and still contains nosie. The hair has no direction. The method noise contains a large amount of detail and structure from the image.

Denoised image
Method noise
MSE=383.2


Wiener filter

The denoised image has less noise, but it is still blurry. The hair has direction, but no detail. The method noise contains detail and structure from the image.

Denoised image
Method noise
MSE=395.4


SUSAN filter

The denoised image is less blurry and noisy. The hair has some direction and shows some detail. The method noise contains detail and structure from the image.

Denoised image
Method noise
MSE=343.2


Non-local means

The denoised image is less blurry and noisy, but it does have some contouring at the bottom. The hair has flow and detail. The area around the eyes contains little noise. The method noise contains very little structure from the image.

Denoised image
Method noise
MSE=298.5