Shearlet transform based image denoising using histogram thresholding

This paper presents an efficient image denoising method by incorporating shearlet-based histogram thresholding. Nowadays, digital images are used in wide range of applications but most of these images are degraded during transmission and acquisition process. Removal of noise from images is still a challenging task for many researchers because there is always a trade-off between noise removal and fine edge preservation. This paper is based on image denoising using shearlet transform. Shearlets have excellent features for data analysis and processing, which overcomes the limitation of traditional methods. They are optimally sparse and have multi-scale and multi-directional properties which are optimal in representing image containing edges. In this paper, the proposed method is found to produce superior peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) over the conventional denoising algorithms.