Noise processing apparatus and noise processing method

Abstract

A noise processing apparatus and a noise processing method capable of increasing cost-performance in the case of performing a noise reducing process for each band using a multiresolution transform and adding a desired noise are provided. The noise processing apparatus includes a multiresolution transform unit (32) that generates a plurality of band images in different resolutions by performing a multiresolution transform process including image size reduction on an original image, a noise reducing unit (34) that performs a noise reducing process on the band image, and a reverse multiresolution transform unit (38) that generates an output image in the same resolution as the original image by performing a reverse multiresolution transform process including image size expansion and a noise addition process on the band image subjected to the noise reducing process, the reverse multiresolution transform unit (38) performing the noise addition process in a lower resolution than the original image.

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