Five of the images (commonly known as Lena, Barbara, Boats, House and Peppers)
are widely used in the image processing literature. Unfortunately, most test images are
available in more than one version, with differences between them due to cropping, scanning,
resizing, compression or conversion from color to gray-level. In the versions used in this
paper the first three are 512 x 512 and the last two are 256 x 256. We also included a
512 x 512 image of a fingerprint, which unlike the other images, is a homogeneous texture.
Among the several versions of 512 x 512 8-bit gray-level Lena, we chose the one that seems
the most standard from
Mike Wakin's web page.
For the comparison of Fig. 5 of our paper, Dr. Starck [1] generously offered to run his
algorithm on our test image, and Dr. Li [2] and Dr. Sendur [3] kindly confirmed they were
using the same version of the image. The Barbara image was obtained from
Marco Schmidt's standard test
images database.
This version had been previously used in [2] where, in turn, there is a comparison to
[4]. It has also been used in [3]. The Boats image was taken from
SIPI image database (University of Southern California).
This same version has been used in [3].
The House and Peppers images were kindly provided by Dr. Pizurica for proper comparison to
her results reported in [5].
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in IEEE Int'l Conf on Image Proc. Vancouver, September 2000.
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Signal Processing Letters, vol. 9, no. 12, pp. 438-441. December 2002.
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1998.
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statistical model for Bayesian wavelet based image denoising", IEEE Trans. Image Proc.,
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