Time-fractional diffusion equation for signal and image smoothing

In this paper, we utilize a time-fractional diffusion equation for image denoising and signal smoothing.  A discretization of our model is provided.  Numerical results show some remarkable results with a great performance, visually and quantitatively, compared to some well known competitive models.

image denoising
дробова похідна
time-fractional order derivative
tensor diffusion
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