Non-local Gradient Fidelity Model for Multiplicative Gamma Noise Removal

In this paper a non-local gradient vector flow model is designed for restoration of images corrupted with Gamma distributed (speckle) noise and linear blurring artefacts. The filter effectively preserves edges and finer details in the course of its evolution due to the presence of the non-local TV based diffusion term and the piecewise linear approximation is reduced considerably by the gradient fidelity term present in the model. The model is found suitable for restoration of various images from the field of satellite and clinical imaging. The experimental results are shown and compared for different image data sets both visually and qualitatively using various statistical measures.