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  • Universal lossy compression methods
    Patent number: 8320687
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for universal lossy compression that provide performance at or near the rate-distortion limit and that are based on universal, implementable lossy source coding algorithms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Itschak Weissman, Shirin Jalali
  • Universal Lossy Compression Methods
    Publication number: 20100195921
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for universal lossy compression that provide performance at or near the rate-distortion limit and that are based on universal, implementable lossy source coding algorithms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Itschak Weissman, Shirin Jalali
  • Denoising video
    Publication number: 20070030900
    Abstract: A denoising process statistically processes a series of frames of a motion picture to construct respective data structures for the frames. Each data structure indicates for each of multiple contexts, occurrences of symbols that have the same context and are in the corresponding one of the frames. The data structures for multiple frames are combined to construct an enhanced data structure for one of the frames, and symbols in that frame are replaced with values determined using the enhanced data structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Inventors: Sergio Verdu, Marcelo Weinberger, Itschak Weissman, Erik Ordentlich, Gadiel Seroussi
  • Discrete universal denoising with error correction coding
    Publication number: 20050289433
    Abstract: A method of and system for denoising and decoding a noisy error correction coded signal received through a noise-introducing channel to produce a recovered signal. In one embodiment, noisy message blocks are separated from noisy check blocks in the noisy error correction coded signal. The noisy message blocks are denoised. Error correction decoding is performed on the denoised message blocks using the noisy check blocks to produce the recovered signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Publication date: December 29, 2005
    Inventors: Itschak Weissman, Erik Ordentlich, Gadiel Seroussi, Sergio Verdu, Marcelo Weinberger
  • Context-based denoiser that simultaneously updates probabilities for multiple contexts
    Publication number: 20060070256
    Abstract: A discrete, universal denoising method is applied to a noisy signal for which the source alphabet is typically large. The method exploits a priori information regarding expected characteristics of the signal. In particular, using characteristics of a continuous tone image such as continuity and small-scale symmetry allows definition of context classes containing large numbers of image contexts having similar statistical characteristics. Use of the context classes allows extraction of more reliable indications of the characteristic of a clean signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Itschak Weissman, Erik Ordentlich, Gadiel Seroussi, Marcelo Weinberger, Sergio Verdu, Giovanni Motta
  • Denoising video
    Patent number: 7420487
    Abstract: A denoising process statistically processes a series of frames of a motion picture to construct respective data structures for the frames. Each data structure indicates for each of multiple contexts, occurrences of symbols that have the same context and are in the corresponding one of the frames. The data structures for multiple frames are combined to construct an enhanced data structure for one of the frames, and symbols in that frame are replaced with values determined using the enhanced data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Sergio Verdu, Marcelo Weinberger, Itschak Weissman, Erik Ordentlich, Gadiel Seroussi
  • Methods for compression using a denoiser
    Publication number: 20060045360
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention provide a compression method and system that compresses received data by first denoising the data and then losslessly compressing the denoised data. Denoising removes high entropy features of the data to produce lower entropy, denoised data that can be efficiently compressed by a lossless compression technique. One embodiment of the invention is a universal lossy compression method obtained by cascading a denoising technique with a universal lossless compression method. Alternative embodiments include methods obtained by cascading a denoising technique with one or more lossy or lossless compression methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Publication date: March 2, 2006
    Inventors: Itschak Weissman, Erik Ordentlich, Gadiel Seroussi, Sergio Verdu, Marcelo Weinberger
  • Context-based denoiser that simultaneously updates probabilities for multiple contexts
    Patent number: 7271749
    Abstract: A discrete, universal denoising method is applied to a noisy signal for which the source alphabet is typically large. The method exploits a priori information regarding expected characteristics of the signal. In particular, using characteristics of a continuous tone image such as continuity and small-scale symmetry allows definition of context classes containing large numbers of image contexts having similar statistical characteristics. Use of the context classes allows extraction of more reliable indications of the characteristic of a clean signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Itschak Weissman, Erik Ordentlich, Gadiel Seroussi, Marcelo Weinberger, Sergio Verdu, Giovanni Motta
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DENOISING SIGNALS
    Publication number: 20110274225
    Abstract: The application is directed to generally applicable denoising methods and systems for recovering, from a noise-corrupted signal, a cleaned signal equal to, or close to, the original, clean signal that suffered corruption due to one or more noise-inducing processes, devices, or media In a first pass, noise-corrupted-signal-reconstruction systems and methods receive an instance of one of many different types of neighborhood rules and use the received neighborhood rule to acquire statistics from a noisy signal. In a second pass, the noise-corrupted-signal-reconstruction systems and methods receive an instance of one of many different types of denoising rules, and use the received denoising rule to denoise a received, noisy signal in order to produce a cleaned signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventor: Itschak Weissman
  • Methods for compression using a denoiser
    Patent number: 7474793
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention provide a compression method and system that compresses received data by first denoising the data and then losslessly compressing the denoised data. Denoising removes high entropy features of the data to produce lower entropy, denoised data that can be efficiently compressed by a lossless compression technique. One embodiment of the invention is a universal lossy compression method obtained by cascading a denoising technique with a universal lossless compression method. Alternative embodiments include methods obtained by cascading a denoising technique with one or more lossy or lossless compression methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Itschak Weissman, Erik Ordentlich, Gadiel Seroussi, Sergio Verdu, Marcelo Weinberger
  • Method and system for denoising noisy signals
    Publication number: 20090028277
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to generally applicable denoising methods and systems for recovering, from a noise-corrupted signal, a cleaned signal equal to, or close to, the original, clean signal that suffered corruption due to one or more noise-inducing processes, devices, or media In a first pass, method embodiments and system embodiments of the present invention receive an instance of one of many different types of neighborhood rules and use the received neighborhood rule to acquire statistics from a noisy signal. In a second pass, the method embodiments and system embodiments of the present invention receive an instance of one of many different types of denoising rules, and use the received denoising rule to denoise a received, noisy signal in order to produce a cleaned signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Inventor: Itschak Weissman
  • Method and system for optimizing denoising parameters using compressibility
    Publication number: 20060047484
    Abstract: In various embodiments of the present invention, a noisy signal denoiser is tuned and optimized by selecting denoiser parameters that provide relatively highly compressible denoiser output. When the original signal can be compared to the output of a denoiser, the denoiser can be accurately tuned and adjusted in order to produce a denoised signal that resembles as closely as possible the clear signal originally transmitted through a noise-introducing channel. However, when the clear signal is not available, as in many communications applications, other methods are needed. By adjusting the parameters to provide a denoised signal that is globally or locally maximally compressible, the denoiser can be optimized despite inaccessibility of the original, clear signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Publication date: March 2, 2006
    Inventors: Gadiel Seroussi, Sergio Verdu, Marcelo Weinberger, Itschak Weissman, Erik Ordentlich
  • Discrete universal denoising with reliability information
    Publication number: 20050289406
    Abstract: A method of and system for generating reliability information for a noisy signal received through a noise-introducing channel. In one embodiment, symbol-transition probabilities are determined for the noise-introducing channel. Occurrences of metasymbols in the noisy signal are counted, each metasymbol providing a context for a symbol of the metasymbol. For each metasymbol occurring in the noisy signal, reliability information for each possible value of the symbol of the metasymbol is determined, the reliability information representing a probability that the value in the original signal corresponding to the symbol of the metasymbol assumed each of the possible values. In another embodiment, error correction coding may be performed by adding redundant data to an original signal prior to transmission by the noise-introducing channel and performing error correction decoding after transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Publication date: December 29, 2005
    Inventors: Itschak Weissman, Erik Ordentlich, Gadiel Seroussi, Sergio Verdu, Marcelo Weinberger, Krishnamurthy Viswanathan
  • Method and system for producing variable length context models
    Publication number: 20060047501
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for determining, representing, and using variable-length contexts in a variety of different computational applications. In one embodiment of the present invention, a balanced tree is used to represent all possible contexts of a fixed length, where the depth of the balanced tree is equal to the fixed length of the considered contexts. Then, in the embodiment, a pruning technique is used to sequentially coalesce the children of particular nodes in the tree in order to produce an unbalanced tree representing a set of variable-length contexts. The pruning method is selected, in one embodiment, to coalesce nodes, and, by doing so, to truncate the tree according to statistical considerations in order to produce a representation of a variably sized context model suitable for a particular application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Publication date: March 2, 2006
    Inventors: Gadiell Seroussi, Sergio Verdu, Marcelo Weinberger, Itschak Weissman, Erik Ordentlich
  • Discrete denoising using blended counts
    Publication number: 20060045218
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a discrete denoiser that replaces all of one type of symbol in a received, noisy signal with a replacement symbol in order to produce a recovered signal less distorted with respect to an originally transmitted, clean signal than the received, noisy signal. Certain, initially developed discrete denoisers employ an analysis of the number of occurrences of metasymbols within the received, noisy signal in order to select symbols for replacement, and to select the replacement symbols for the symbols that are replaced. Embodiments of the present invention use blended counts that are combinations of the occurrences of metasymbol families within a noisy signal, rather than counts of individual, single metasymbols, to determine the symbols to be replaced and the replacement symbols corresponding to them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Publication date: March 2, 2006
    Inventors: Erik Ordentlich, Gadiel Seroussi, Sergio Verdu, Marcelo Weinberger, Itschak Weissman
  • Enhanced denoising system
    Publication number: 20050163267
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing a received digital signal that has been corrupted by a channel is disclosed. The method includes storing the received digital signal and receiving a partially corrected sequence of symbols that includes an output of a preliminary denoising system operating on the received digital signal. Information specifying a signal degradation function that measures the signal degradation that occurs if a symbol having the value I is replaced by a symbol having the value J is utilized to generate a processed digital signal by replacing each symbol having a value I in a context of that symbol in the received digital signal with a symbol having a value J if replacement reduces a measure of overall signal degradation in the processed digital signal relative to the received digital signal as measured by the degradation function and the partially corrected sequence of symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Inventors: Itschak Weissman, Erik Ordentlich, Gadiel Seroussi, Marcelo Weinberger, Sergio Verdu
  • Method and system for optimizing denoising parameters using compressibility
    Patent number: 7436969
    Abstract: In various embodiments of the present invention, a noisy signal denoiser is tuned and optimized by selecting denoiser parameters that provide relatively highly compressible denoiser output. When the original signal can be compared to the output of a denoiser, the denoiser can be accurately tuned and adjusted in order to produce a denoised signal that resembles as closely as possible the clear signal originally transmitted through a noise-introducing channel. However, when the clear signal is not available, as in many communications applications, other methods are needed. By adjusting the parameters to provide a denoised signal that is globally or locally maximally compressible, the denoiser can be optimized despite inaccessibility of the original, clear signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Gadiel Seroussi, Sergio Verdu, Marcelo Weinberger, Itschak Weissman, Erik Ordentlich
  • Enhanced denoising system utilizing incremental parsing
    Publication number: 20060115017
    Abstract: An apparatus for operating on a received signal that includes a noise-free signal that has been corrupted by a channel is disclosed. A memory stores a channel corruption function specifying the probability that a symbol having a value I was converted to a symbol having a value J by the channel, and a degradation function measuring the signal degradation that occurs if a symbol having the value I is replaced by symbol having a value J. The controller parses one of the received signal or the processed signal into phrases, and replaces one of the symbol having a value I in a context of that symbol in the received signal with a symbol having a value J if the replacement would reduce the estimated overall signal degradation in the processed signal. The context of a symbol depends on the phrase associated with the symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Inventors: Erik Ordentlich, Gadiel Seroussi, Sergio Verdu, Marcelo Weinberger, Itschak Weissman
  • Discrete denoising using blended counts
    Patent number: 8189722
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a discrete denoiser that replaces symbols in a received, noisy signal with replacement symbols in order to produce a recovered signal less distorted with respect to an originally transmitted, clean signal than the received, noisy signal. Certain, initially developed discrete denoisers employ an analysis of the number of occurrences of metasymbols within the received, noisy signal in order to select symbols for replacement, and to select the replacement symbols for the symbols that are replaced. Denoisers that represent examples of the present invention use blended counts that are combinations of the occurrences of metasymbol families within a noisy signal to determine the symbols to be replaced and the replacement symbols corresponding to them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Erik Ordentlich, Gadiel Seroussi, Sergio Verdú, Marcelo Weinberger, Itschak Weissman
  • Context identification using a denoised signal
    Publication number: 20060070257
    Abstract: Denoising such as discrete universal denoising (DUDE) that scans a noisy signal in an attempt to characterize probabilities of finding symbol values in a particular context in a clean signal can perform a rough denoising on the noisy signal and identify contexts from a roughly denoised signal. The rough denoising improves estimation of the statistical properties of the clean signal by reducing the false differentiation of contexts that noise can otherwise create. Statistical information regarding occurrences of symbols in the noisy signal and corresponding contexts in the roughly denoised signal can then be used to denoise the noisy signal. The specifics of the rough denoising can be chosen based on knowledge of the noise or of the clean data. Alternatively, the DUDE can be used in an iterative fashion where the denoised signal produced from a prior iteration provides the contexts for the next iteration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Itschak Weissman, Erik Ordentlich, Gadiel Seroussi, Marcelo Weinberger, Sergio Verdu, Giovanni Motta
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