Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
533541 Pattern Recognition 2011 10 Pages PDF
Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel pattern denoising method that utilizes the topological property of a support that describes the distribution of normal patterns to denoise noisy patterns. The method first trains a support function which captures the domain of normal patterns and then construct a so-called multi-basin system associated with the trained support function. By moving noisy patterns along the trajectories of the multi-basin system, noise is removed while the pattern recovers its normality. The denoised pattern is obtained when the noisy pattern arrives at the attracting manifold generated by a set of normal patterns and this is the most similar normal pattern with the noisy pattern in the topological sense. Through simulations on some toy dataset and real image datasets, we show that the proposed framework effectively removes the noise while preserving the information contained in the noisy pattern.

Research highlights► We propose a novel pattern denoising method using multi-basin dynamical systems. ► The constructed system characterizes the topological behavior of a noisy pattern. ► The denoised pattern is topologically most similar to the original noisy pattern. ► The method effectively reduces the noise while preserving the original information.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Computer Science Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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