On a nonlinear laplacian based filter for noise removal

Abstract

We propose a nonlinear filter for noise removal based on the Laplacian for 1D and 2D data. The method utilizes the solution to a fourth-order nonlinear PDE involving the Laplacian for data reconstruction. Evolution equations are introduced to solve this fourth-order nonlinear equation. Numerical experiments show that the new filter preserves discontinuities while filtering out noise. The restored data are piecewise linear and avoid the staircase effect commonly observed with total variation denoising methods.