From the image, the image filtering to remove nois
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Application background One goal in image restoration is to remove the noise from the image in such a way that the "original" image is discernible. Of course, "noise" is in the eye of the beholder; removing the "noise" from a Jackson Pollack painting would considerably reduce its value. Nonetheless, one approach is to decide that features that exist on a very small scale in the image are noise, and that removing these while maintaining larger features might help "clean things up".
One well-traveled approach is to smooth the image. The simplest such version is replace each pixel it by the average of the neighboring pixel values. If we do this a few times we get the image in the middle above; if we do it many times, we get the image on the right. Key Technology The algorithm treats an image as an array of pixel values, and, tracks the evolution of iso-intensity contours using a level set method. The key i