Wavelet Image Denoising Using Localized Thresholding Operators

Recently proposed Hard Thresholding based Adaptive Filtering (HTAF) algorithm provides an on-line counterpart of a compressed sensing based greedy sparse recovery algorithm called iterative hard thresholding (IHT) by constructing a sliding-window based cost function. This leads to an adaptive algorithm with data reuse gradient term (i.e. with multi-regressors) followed by a fixed hard thresholding operator. The HTAF algorithm achieves both robustness against colored input (due to the data reuse in gradient update) and smaller steady state error (due to hard thresholding operator) while identifying a sparse system. In this paper, we propose a new sparse adaptive technique called Proportionate type Hard Thresholding Adaptive Filter (PtHTAF) using a proportionate-type gradient update followed by a variable hard thresholding operator. The proposed PtHTAF algorithm enjoys faster initial convergence rate (due to proportionate type gradient update) while maintaining low steady-state excess mean square error like the HTAF. Simulation results establish superiority of the proposed algorithm over existing sparse adaptive algorithms.

Acoustic emission (AE) detection, as a non-electrical detection method, is very suitable for effective fault detection of power equipment with a strong electromagnetic field. However, the AE signal collected at industrial sites often contains a lot of interference noise, affecting the analysis and prediction of faults. In this study, a wavelet denoising method based on a new threshold function is proposed, to achieve a noise reduction in the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) signals. Simulation experiment results show that the proposed threshold function not only overcomes the shortcomings of the discontinuous hard threshold function, but also solves the constant deviation of the soft threshold function. What’s more, the proposed function achieves a good adaptability. When SNR = 10 dB: The SNR of the new threshold is 20.6622, and the RMSE is 0.0026. The SNR of the hard threshold is 20.2246 and the RMSE is 0.0027, compared with the traditional hard threshold method, the SNR of the new threshold is increased by 2.16% and the root mean square error (RMSE) is reduced by 3.7%; the SNR of the soft threshold is 15.5656, and the RMSE is 0.0047, compared with the traditional soft threshold method, the new threshold has a 32.74% increase in SNR and a 40.43% reduction in RMSE. When SNR = -10 dB: The SNR of the new threshold is 4.2602, and the RMSE is 0.0172. The SNR of the hard threshold is 3.8558 and the RMSE is 0.0182, compared with the traditional hard threshold method, the SNR of the new threshold is increased by 10.49% and the RMSE is reduced by 5.49%; the SNR of the soft threshold is 2.1625, and the RMSE is 0.0212, compared with the soft threshold method, SNR is improved by 97% and RMSE is reduced by 18.87%. Performance analyses have proved that the improved wavelet denoising method can obtain a good noise reduction effect. It is very helpful for AE signal analysis with the generally low SNR, which can improve the accuracy of failure identification in subsequent acts.

A large amount of noise is mixed in the actual process industrial data, which leads to a decline in data quality, which in turn affects the diagnosis results. In reality, the wavelet threshold method is generally used to remove noise. However, the hard threshold method which is in the wavelet threshold method has the disadvantages of poor signal continuity and signal oscillating. The soft threshold method has the disadvantages of constant deviation and large error of reconstructed signal. To this end, we propose a random soft-hard threshold algorithm which can combine hard and soft thresholds. Then the new algorithm is combined with the principal component analysis for fault diagnosis of the TE (Tennessee Eastman) process. The MATLAB simulation results show that the above method can effectively denoise, identify and detect faults more accurately, and can better find the variables that have the greatest impact on the fault.

Stock is one type of long-term investment in the capital market. The stock movement indicator that is most often used in analysis by investors is the Indonesia Composite Index (ICI). ICI data is a variety of time series data, so it can be analyzed using forecasting. One forecasting method that can be used is the wavelet thresholding method. The wavelet threshold can analyze stationary, non-stationary, and nonlinear time series data by producing smooth estimates. The wavelet threshold has a wavelet filter and threshold parameters and threshold functions that can be used in analyzing. In this study MSE was assessed from several wavelet filters namely haar, daubechies, and coiflets filters at levels 1 to 7 with the thresholding function namely soft thresholding and thresholding parameters, namely minimax thresholding and sure thresholding. The data used is IHGS data in 2018 totaling 240 data. Based on the data analysis performed, MSE was obtained which means that the best filter provided in order 2 wavelet coiflet filter at level 2 and thresholding parameter is sure of thresholding with MSE value of 0.0094

In this article, we developed and analyzed a thresholding method in which soft thresholding estimators are independently expanded by empirical scaling values. The scaling values have a common hyper-parameter that is an order of expansion of an ideal scaling value that achieves hard thresholding. We simply call this estimator a scaled soft thresholding estimator. The scaled soft thresholding is a general method that includes the soft thresholding and non-negative garrote as special cases and gives an another derivation of adaptive LASSO. We then derived the degree of freedom of the scaled soft thresholding by means of the Stein's unbiased risk estimate and found that it is decomposed into the degree of freedom of soft thresholding and the reminder connecting to hard thresholding. In this meaning, the scaled soft thresholding gives a natural bridge between soft and hard thresholding methods. Since the degree of freedom represents the degree of over-fitting, this result implies that there are two sources of over-fitting in the scaled soft thresholding. The first source originated from soft thresholding is determined by the number of un-removed coefficients and is a natural measure of the degree of over-fitting. We analyzed the second source in a particular case of the scaled soft thresholding by referring a known result for hard thresholding. We then found that, in a sparse, large sample and non-parametric setting, the second source is largely determined by coefficient estimates whose true values are zeros and has an influence on over-fitting when threshold levels are around noise levels in those coefficient estimates. In a simple numerical example, these theoretical implications has well explained the behavior of the degree of freedom. Moreover, based on the results here and some known facts, we explained the behaviors of risks of soft, hard and scaled soft thresholding methods.

Based on multi-resolution analysis of wavelet, this article is aimed at building a new soft threshold function for wavelet de-noising, to overcome the discontinuous disadvantage of the hard threshold function. In the area adjacent to the threshold, continuously adjustable nonlinear functions are introduced in piecewise to process the wavelet coefficients more carefully in this area. Consequently, large deviation caused by super-compression of wavelet coefficients when using traditional soft threshold could be avoided, and the nonlinearity of the system is able to be effectively kept. Using both signal to noise ratio (SNR) and mean square error (MSE) as the evaluation indicators, simulation results show that the improved method is more effective than the method based on traditional hard and soft threshold.

In order to improve the effects of denoising, this paper introduces the basic principles of wavelet threshold denoising and traditional structures threshold functions. Meanwhile, it proposes wavelet threshold function and fixed threshold formula which are both improved here. First, this paper studies the problems existing in the traditional wavelet threshold functions and introduces the adjustment factors to construct the new threshold function basis on soft threshold function. Then, it studies the fixed threshold and introduces the logarithmic function of layer number of wavelet decomposition to design the new fixed threshold formula. Finally, this paper uses hard threshold, soft threshold, Garrote threshold, and improved threshold function to denoise different signals. And the paper also calculates signal-to-noise (SNR) and mean square errors (MSE) of the hard threshold functions, soft thresholding functions, Garrote threshold functions, and the improved threshold function after denoising. Theoretical analysis and experimental results showed that the proposed approach could improve soft threshold functions with constant deviation and hard threshold with discontinuous function problems. The proposed approach could improve the different decomposition scales that adopt the same threshold value to deal with the noise problems, also effectively filter the noise in the signals, and improve the SNR and reduce the MSE of output signals.

Wavelet denoising techniques with applications to experimental geophysical data

Speech enhancement using a wavelet thresholding method based on symmetric Kullback–Leibler divergence

We present a variational approach to obtain high-resolution images from multiframe low-resolution video stills. The objective functional for the variational approach consists of a data fidelity term and a regularizer. The fidelity term is formed by adaptively mimicking l1 and l2 norms. The regularization uses the l1 norm of the framelet coefficients of a high-resolution image with a geometric tight framelet system constructed in this paper. The tight framelet system has abilities to detect multi-orientation and multi-order variations of an image. A two-phase iterative method for super-resolution reconstruction is proposed to construct a high-resolution image. The first phase is to get an approximation of the solution (i.e., the ideal image) using the steepest descent method. The second phase is to enhance the sparsity of the approximate solution by using the soft thresholding operator with variable thresholding parameters. Numerical results based on both synthetic data and real videos show that our algorithm is efficient in terms of removing visual artifacts and preserving edges in restored images.

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For the problem of denoising incomplete phenomenon appeared in the existing wavelet threshold methods, a new kind of threshold function and denoising method of parameter adjustable wavelet threshold is proposed. The traditional hard threshold and soft threshold wavelet had problems such as continuity and constant deviation. Firstly, to construct a new threshold function and theoretically proves the superiority of this new threshold function, as long as choosing the suitable parameter, the new threshold function has a better denoising effect than traditional thresholding function. Secondly, to reduce the deviation between wavelet coefficients and the original, the threshold value is changed with the change of decomposition scale. The experimental results demonstrate that by using the proposed method, whether the Gaussian noise or impulse noise, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of image and the peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) of image can be greatly improved and the mean square error (MSE) of the image was reduced, the denoising effect is better than other algorithms.

This paper investigates the negative pressure waves generated when the pipeline leaks based on the negative pressure wave localization method, adopts a boosted wavelet transform method that does not depend on the Fourier transform, selects the noise reduction threshold based on the Birgé-Massart strategy, introduces a soft and hard threshold compromise noise reduction algorithm to process the noise-containing signals, and finally uses the negative pressure waves collected from field experiments to test and apply the above algorithm, and compares the effect and error analysis with the traditional soft threshold method and hard threshold method. The results show that the denoising effect and the root mean square error after signal processing of the algorithm established in this paper are better than the traditional algorithms, and have good application value in pipeline leakage signal noise reduction.

The shrinkage function has an important effect on the image denoising results. An adaptive shrinkage function is developed in this paper to shrink the small coefficients properly for image denoising based on neighborhood characteristics. The shrinkage function is determined by the number of large coefficients near the current signal coefficients. In this way, different shrinkage functions can be adaptively used to deal with different coefficients in the process of image denoising, instead of using fixed shrinkage functions. Experimental results show that the SNR of the image processed by the adaptive shrink function algorithm is better than that processed by the soft threshold, hard threshold, and neighborhood shrink algorithm. Moreover, compared with the traditional soft threshold, hard threshold and neighborhood shrink algorithm, the PSNR of the algorithm using adaptive shrink function increases by 3.68dB, 2.28dB and 0.61dB, respectively. In addition, the proposed new algorithms, soft threshold and hard threshold, are combined with empirical Wiener filtering and shift invariant (TI) scheme to compare their image noise reduction effects. The results show that the PSNR can be improved significantly by using the adaptive shrink function algorithm combined with empirical Wiener filtering and shift invariant (TI) scheme.

Wavelet de-noising method is often used in the processing of magnetotelluric (MT) signal, and the wavelet hard and soft threshold de-noising method are the most popular although there is much room for improvement in the threshold function selection and threshold determination. A new adaptive wavelet threshold de-noising method was proposed by selecting a new threshold function and presenting an adaptive method for obtaining optimal threshold based on the multi-resolution Stein unbiased risk estimation. New threshold function and an adaptive method to determine threshold were discussed, and the principle and implementation of the algorithm were given. The simulated signal and the measured MT data contaminated by impulse interference were analyzed, and the obtained results were compared with those of the conventional wavelet hard and soft threshold de-noising methods. The results show that the proposed method overcomes the defects of the traditional wavelet soft and hard threshold due to a new threshold function, and a new method to determine the threshold of each layer is applied and provides an adaptive method for filtering MT data in the wavelet domain that requires a minimum of human intervention. The presented de-noising method is very suitable for suppressing the impulse interference for MT data and can get higher signal-to-noise ratio than the traditional wavelet threshold de-noising methods. After de-noising, the accurate data is loaded for further impedance estimation and geological interpretation.