A real-time 2-D median based filter for video signals

  • Authors:
  • J. S.J. Li;S. Luthi

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Canterbury Univ., Christchurch;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

A 2-D, multishell median-based filter for real-time video signal processing is presented. The device is able to remove impulse and missing line noise in real-time without blurring sharp video images. A prototype using 75 standard transistor-transistor logic (TTL) chips has been realized on one single speedwire prototype board of size 17×30 cm2 and its structure is suitable for VLSI implementation. The statistical performance of the nonlinear filter has been investigated and compared with that of standard 2-D median filters. It is shown that the filter has characteristics superior to those of its median-based counterparts while the hardware implementation is much simpler