Direction based adaptive weighted switching median filter for removing high density impulse noise

  • Authors:
  • Madhu S. Nair;P. M. Ameera Mol

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Kerala, Kariavattom, Thiruvananthapuram 695 581, Kerala, India;Department of Computer Science, University of Kerala, Kariavattom, Thiruvananthapuram 695 581, Kerala, India

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Electrical Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Restoration of images corrupted by impulse noises is a very common problem in the image processing. An efficient direction based adaptive weighted switching median filter for restoration of images corrupted by high density impulse noise is proposed in this paper. The filtering process consists of two phases - detection phase followed by a filtering phase. The detection phase in the proposed method uses HEIND algorithm put forward by Fei Duan et al. After detecting noisy pixel positions in the image, filtering algorithm is applied to those detected pixels. All uncorrupted pixels in the image are left unchanged by the filtering algorithm. The filtering algorithm uses uncorrupted pixels in the selected four directions for taking a decision on the filtering window size. Noisy pixels are replaced by a weighted median value of uncorrupted pixels in the filtering window or directional filtering window. The weight value assigned to each uncorrupted pixels depends on its closeness to the central corrupted pixel in the current filtering window.