Automatic Noise Estimation from the Multiresolution Support
J. L. Starck, F. Murtagh;
PASP, 1998, 110, 193

ABSTRACT:We describe an automated approach for determining the noise associated with astronomical images. Detector noise is ever present and must be determined for high-quality image filtering or compression. We also show that the method can be used for very high quality cosmic-ray hit removal. Our method is based on a multiresolution transform of the image, the à trous wavelet transform. We present a range of examples and applications to illustrate the effectiveness of this approach.
KEYWORDS: methods: statistical, methods: data analysis
CODE: starck98