A non-parametric filter for digital image restoration, using cluster analysis

  • Authors:
  • Héctor Allende;Jorge Galbiati

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Informática Casilla, Universidad Ténica Federico Santa Maria, 110-V, Valdparaíso, Chile;Instituto de Estadistica Casilla, Pontificia Universidad Caiólica de Valparaíso, 4059 Valparaíso, Chile

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition Letters
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We introduce a method to restore digital images with contaminated pixels. One particular characteristic of this method is that it does not change the pixels that are not considered contaminated, thus avoiding excessive intervening of the original image. Each pixel is analyzed by studying its eight point neighborhood. A cluster analysis is performed on the group of eight pixels contained in the neighborhood. After deciding how many clusters there are in the neighborhood, a decision is made whether the center pixel is an outlier or not. If so, to assign a new value, another decision is made, on a probabilistic basis, as to which cluster it belongs.This method can be applied to black and white images as well as to color and multiphase images.