Image denoising review: From classical to state-of-the-art approaches.

• Exhaustive survey of methods for removal of Gaussian noise. • Categorisation of denoising methods into various domains. • Extensive experimental analysis of state-of-the-art techniques. At the crossing of the statistical and functional analysis, there exists a relentless quest for an efficient image denoising algorithm. In terms of greyscale imaging, a plethora of denoising algorithms have been documented in the literature, in spite of which the level of functionality of these algorithms still holds margin to acquire desired level of applicability. Quite often noise affecting the pixels in image is Gaussian in nature and uniformly deters information pixels in image. Based on some specific set of assumptions all methods work optimally, however they tend to create artefacts and remove fine structural details under general conditions. This article focuses on classifying and comparing some of the significant works in the field of denoising. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]