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Digital Image Signal to Noise Ratio Digital Image Processing (DIP)

How do I compute the PSNR (peak signal-to-noise

ratio) of a digitized image expressed in the form of an
m x n matrix?

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Rehan Maroofi, former Technical Associate at Wipro BPO (2005-2006)

Updated Oct 20, 2018 · Author has 218 answers and 447.1k answer views

Let us consider our image matrix (3x3 to keep things easy to understand):

[121

236

582]

So, we have the “SIGNAL” part of our task complete.

Now, we need to find the “NOISE” part of our problem. When we have these two, we just
need to find the ratio of signal to noise.

“NOISE” is any unwanted addition to our signal.

Let us say that we transmitted our image over a noisy channel, and the image matrix
received at the other end was:

[131

235

5 8 1]

Obviously, there is a change in our received image.

The noise can be calculated as the difference between the received image and the sent
image, so in our case it would be:

[010

0 0 -1

0 0 -1]

Since, noise can be positive or negative as seen above, if we summed positive and negative
noises, many would cancel each other out. To avoid this, we use square of the noise. So, all
noise values, positive or negative, become positive.

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This is called the MSE or mean square error. (The M and N in the MSE formula are the
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How do I calculate the signal-to-noise ratio of an
image?
Using MSE in the formula above for PSNR, we can then calculate the PSNR.
What is a signal-to-noise ratio?
In the formula for PSNR, the value of R is decided by the format of the image. If the image
How can I calculate the Signal to Noise ratio?
is an 8 bit image, R = 255. If the image is expressed using floating point numbers, R = 1.
How is signal-to-noise ratio calculated?
So, let us assume that our image is 8 bit, so R=255.
Why is signal-to-noise ratio important?
MSE = [ (1)^2 + (-1)^2 + (-1)^2 ] / (3 * 3) = 3/9 = 0.3333…
What does signal-to-noise ratio mean in terms of
so PSNR = 10 log (255 * 255 * 3) = 52.9 dB (approximately) for our image example.
modelling datasets?

I hope this will help to get you on your way.

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Konstantinos Konstantinides, EE, worked in digital signal and image processing

Answered Sep 25, 2017 · Author has 34.4k answers and 27.6m answer views

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Peak signal-to-noise ratio - Wikipedia

However, what is your “noise”? If there is an “original image” the noise corresponds to the
MSE between them.
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