KEYWORDS: Digital filtering, Image filtering, Switching, Image quality, Detection and tracking algorithms, Signal to noise ratio, Image processing, Visualization, Computer engineering, Data acquisition
A multi-stage noise adaptive switching filter (MSNASF) is proposed for the restoration of images extremely corrupted by impulse and impulse-like noise. The filter consists of two steps: noise detection and noise removal. The proposed extrema-based noise detection scheme utilizes the false contouring effect to get better over detection rate at low noise density. It is adaptive and will detect not only impulse but also impulse-like noise. In the noise removal step, a novel multi-stage filtering scheme is proposed. It replaces corrupted pixel with the nearest uncorrupted median to preserve details. When compared with other methods, MSNASF provides better peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and structure similarity index (SSIM). A subjective evaluation carried out online also demonstrates that MSNASF yields higher fidelity.
Supervised machine learning algorithm has been extensively studied and applied to different fields of image processing in past decades. This paper proposes a new machine learning algorithm, called margin setting (MS), for restoring images that are corrupted by salt and pepper impulse noise. Margin setting generates decision surface to classify the noise pixels and non-noise pixels. After the noise pixels are detected, a modified ranked order mean (ROM) filter is used to replace the corrupted pixels for images reconstruction. Margin setting algorithm is tested with grayscale and color images for different noise densities. The experimental results are compared with those of the support vector machine (SVM) and standard median filter (SMF). The results show that margin setting outperforms these methods with higher Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR), lower mean square error (MSE), higher image enhancement factor (IEF) and higher Structural Similarity Index (SSIM).
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