Image processing device, image processing method, and program

An image processing device comprising:

• a peripheral objective pixel random acquiring section acquiring pixels obtained by sampling peripheral pixels located in a periphery of a marked pixel, which is marked at random with respect to the marked pixel of pixels, corresponding to an objective image as an object of noise removal as peripheral objective pixels used for filtering for noise removal;
• a noise removing section carrying out filtering for the noise removal by using the peripheral objective pixels;
• and
• a setting section setting a sampling pattern representing positions of the pixels which are to be sampled at random,
• wherein the objective image is a moving image, said setting section changes the sampling pattern for every pixel arranged in a space direction and for every pixel arranged in a time direction, and said peripheral objective pixel random acquiring section acquires the peripheral objective pixels in accordance with the sampling pattern.

An image processing method, comprising:

• acquiring pixels obtained by sampling peripheral pixels located in a periphery of a marked pixel, which is marked at random with respect to the marked pixel of pixels, corresponding to an objective image as an object of noise removal as peripheral objective pixels used for filtering for noise removal by an image processing device;
• carrying out filtering for the noise removal by using the peripheral objective pixels by said image processing device;
• and
• setting a sampling pattern representing positions of the pixels which are to be sampled at random in such a way that a pixel whose position is represented by the sampling pattern about one pixel of two pixels adjacent to each other, and a pixel whose position is represented by the sampling pattern about the other pixel do not overlap each other.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium including a program causing a computer to make a function so as to comprise:

• a peripheral objective pixel random acquiring section acquiring pixels obtained by sampling peripheral pixels located in a periphery of a marked pixel, which is marked at random with respect to the marked pixel of pixels, corresponding to an objective image as an object of noise removal as peripheral objective pixels used for filtering for noise removal;
• a noise removing section carrying out filtering for the noise removal by using the peripheral objective pixels;
• and
• setting a sampling pattern representing positions of the pixels which are to be sampled at random in such a way that a pixel whose position is represented by the sampling pattern about one pixel of two pixels adjacent to each other, and a pixel whose position is represented by the sampling pattern about the other pixel do not overlap each other.