NON LOCAL IMAGE DENOISING

摘要

An image processing apparatus for processing a digital image, where the digital image comprises a reference block and a plurality of further blocks, and where the image processing apparatus comprises a determiner being configured to determine a plurality of similarity measures between the reference block and the plurality of further blocks, wherein each similarity measure indicates a similarity between a noise distribution in the reference block and a noise distribution in a further block of the plurality of further blocks, and the determiner being further configured to determine a plurality of similar blocks from the plurality of further blocks upon the basis of the plurality of similarity measures.