1. A method, comprising: accessing at least a portion of a digital raw image frame captured by a digital image sensor; de-noising the accessed at least a portion of the digital raw image frame without substantially modifying defective pixel values when present; and in response to determining that at least one image frame pixel in the de-noised at least a portion of the digital raw image frame has a defective pixel value: detecting the locations of each of the at least one image frame pixel having a defective pixel value; and correcting each defective pixel value in each detected location in one of the de-noised at least a portion of the digital raw image frame and the originally accessed at least a portion of the digital raw image frame.