Fuzzy diffusion filter with extended neighborhood

Authors:
Cetin Elmas;Recep Demirci;UğUr GüVenc
Affiliations:
Gazi University, Technology Faculty, Electrical-Electronics Engineering Department, Ankara, Turkey;Gazi University, Technology Faculty, Computer Engineering Department, Ankara, Turkey;Duzce University, Technology Faculty, Electrical-Electronics Engineering Department, Duzce, Turkey
Venue:
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Anisotropic diffusion filters, which are motivated from heat diffusion between mediums, have become a widely used technique in the field of image processing. In the initial proposals of anisotropic diffusion filters, 4-neighborhood values with diffusivity functions are computed independently for each spatial location because of numerical approximation. However, anisotropic diffusion filters could not be used in real-time image and video processing applications because they need diffusivity parameters, which must be specified by users in every sampling period. In this study, a fuzzy adaptive diffusion filter using extended neighborhood without diffusivity functions has been developed. The fuzzy adaptive diffusion filter does not require any parameter chosen by user and therefore they could be employed in real-time applications. In the fuzzy adaptive diffusion filter, a similarity transformation by means of relation matrix and fuzzy logic is carried out. Accordingly, the similarity image, output of transformation, is directly used as a heat diffusion coefficient in the diffusion filter. Results show that the fuzzy adaptive diffusion filter is very efficient for removing noise in image while preserving edges.