Image Denoising via the Adaptive Rank-Cluster Filter

Dmitry Pozdnyakov

cs.CVAug 15, 2026

Image Denoising via the Adaptive Rank-Cluster Filter

Authors: Dmitry Pozdnyakov

Organizations: Oxagile LLC, Minsk, Belarus

Abstract

A spatial-local image-denoising filter is proposed, and its performance metrics are evaluated in comparison with baseline filtering algorithms, including the median, adaptive median, Gaussian, bilateral, Wiener, anisotropic diffusion, and non-local means. The developed filter is based on aligning the intensity value of the central pixel in a 3x3 window with the statistical majority intensity of one of the two clusters formed by optimal Otsu's partitioning of a pixel set sorted by intensity and trimmed to seven elements. This is followed by a fuzzy fusion of the calculated value with the median intensity of the pixels within the window. The proposed filter demonstrates the highest robustness to variations in image noise levels, particularly when processing mixed noise consisting of salt-and-pepper impulse noise and additive Gaussian noise in various proportions

Image Denoising

Image denoising removes unwanted noise while preserving the edges, textures, and colors needed for faithful images.

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Real-world video denoising for communication systems must handle mixed degradations such as sensor noise, compression artifacts, and motion-induced inconsistency while remaining deployable under tight latency budgets. Purely deep models often achieve high accuracy but come with significant computational cost, whereas classical filters are robust and efficient but insufficiently adaptive. We present FilterFusion, a prior-guided multi-frame denoising framework that combines temporally-aware learned features with an interpretable bank of denoising branches. The model predicts a low-cost guidance signal and uses it to adaptively mix a compact set of denoising responses at the original resolution. The lightweight design uses only 109K parameters and explicitly injects temporal variance and spatial variance cues into the low-resolution controller. On CRVD (real sensor noise), it reaches 34.72 dB PSNR and 0.9330 SSIM with only 0.18 GFLOPs (network-only). Because the filter-bank operations are simple and regular (Gaussian blur, median, weighted sum), a straightforward compiled C implementation of the synthesis path achieves 17.9ms per frame (55.9 FPS) on a single CPU thread at 1080p---exceeding real-time and 122--252 times faster than lightweight CNN baselines that require over 2 seconds per frame. The results demonstrate a strong quality-efficiency-speed trade-off and a practical route to real-time denoising through low-resolution control and explicit filter-based synthesis.

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