Identifying criminals and victims in evidence images, where their faces are covered or obstructed, is a challenging task. In the legal case, United States v. Michael Joseph Pepe (...
Blocking artifacts are a major degradation affecting blockbased video compression. In this paper an adaptively based filter is proposed, whereby the type of filtering to be applie...
Different denoising schemes show dissimilar types of artifacts. For example, certain transform-based denoising schemes could introduce artifacts in smooth regions while others eli...
Bilateral filtering is a simple and non-linear technique to remove the image noise while preserving edges. However, it is difficult to optimize a bilateral filter to obtain desire...