In this paper, we introduce a new algorithm based on total variation for
denoising speckle noise images. Total variation was introduced by Rudin, Osher,
and Fatemi in 1992 for regularizing images. Chambolle proposed a faster
algorithm based on the duality of convex functions for minimizing the total
variation, but his algorithm was built for Gaussian noise removal. Unlike
Gaussian noise, which is additive, speckle noise is multiplicative. We modify the
original Chambolle algorithm for speckle noise images using the first noise
equation for speckle denoising, proposed by Krissian, Kikinis, Westin and
Vosburgh in 2005. We apply the Chambolle algorithm to the Krissian et
al. speckle denoising model to develop a faster algorithm for speckle noise
images.
Keywords
anisotropic diffusion, speckle noise, denoising, total
variation (TV) model, Chambolle algorithm, fast speckle
denoising