Bilevel Image Denoising Using Gaussianity Tests

International audienceWe propose a new methodology based on bilevel programming to remove additive white Gaussian noise from images. The lower-level problem consists of a parameterized variational model to denoise images. The parameters are optimized in order to minimize a specific cost function that measures the residual Gaussianity. This model is justified using a statistical analysis. We propose an original numerical method based on the Gauss-Newton algorithm to minimize the outer cost function. We finally perform a few experiments that show the well-foundedness of the approach. We observe a significant improvement compared to standard TV-2 algorithms and show that the method automatically adapts to the signal regularity