A new approach for ME image restoration based on CNN

A new approach for image restoration by cellular neural network (CNN) is developed in this paper. Based on the statistical characteristics of Gibbs image model and the analysis of maximum entropy (ME) image restoration, a reasonable template for binary image restoration is proposed. To process multilevel image, a multi-layer cellular neural network is employed and an extensive algorithm for multilevel image restoration is proposed. The results of computer simulation prove the effectiveness of this approach and show that we can get the effective template of CNN for some special image questions if we apply the statistical characteristics of Gibbs image model and analyse the physical meaning of the questions. Copyright (C) 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Engineering, Electrical & ElectronicSCI(E)EI4ARTICLE3339-3462