Novel filter algorithm for removing impulse noise in digital images

Nelson Hon Ching Yung; Andrew H. S. Lai

doi:10.1117/12.206724

21 April 1995 Novel filter algorithm for removing impulse noise in digital images

Nelson Hon Ching Yung, Andrew H. S. Lai

Proceedings Volume 2501, Visual Communications and Image Processing '95; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.206724
Event: Visual Communications and Image Processing '95, 1995, Taipei, Taiwan

Abstract

In this paper, we present a novel filter algorithm that is more capable in removing impulse noise than some of the common noise removal filters. The philosophy of the new algorithm is based on a pixel identification concept. Rather than processing every pixel in a digital image, this new algorithm intelligently interrogates a subimage region to determine which are the 'corrupted' pixels within the subimage. With this knowledge, only the 'corrupted' pixels are eventually filtered, whereas the 'uncorrupted' pixels are untouched. Extensive testing of the algorithm over a hundred noisy images shows that the new algorithm exhibits three major characteristics. First, its ability in removing impulse noise is better visually and has the smallest mean-square error compared with the median filter, averaging filter and sigma filter. Second, the effect of smoothing is minimal. As a result, edge and line sharpness is retained. Third, the new algorithm is consistently faster than the median filter in all our test cases. In its current form, the new filter algorithm performs well with impulse noise.

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Nelson Hon Ching Yung and Andrew H. S. Lai "Novel filter algorithm for removing impulse noise in digital images", Proc. SPIE 2501, Visual Communications and Image Processing '95, (21 April 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.206724

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