Image denoising using statistical model based on quaternion wavelet domain

Image denoising is the basic problem of image processing. Quaternion wavelet transform is a new kind of multiresolution analysis tools. Image via quaternion wavelet transform, wavelet coefficients both in intrascale and in interscale have certain correla- tions. First, according to the correlation of quaternion wavelet coefficients in interscale, non-Ganssian distribution model is used to model its correlations, and the coefficients are divided into important and unimportance coefficients. Then we use the non-Gaussian distribution model to model the important coefficients and its adjacent coefficients, and utilize the MAP method estimate original image wavelet coefficients from noisy coefficients, so as to achieve the purpose of denoising. Experimental results show that our al- gorithm outperforms the other classical algorithms in peak signal-to-noise ratio and visual quality.