一种消除椒盐噪声的迭代自适应中值滤波算法

针对传统中值滤波算法对高密度椒盐噪声图像滤波效果差的问题,基于循环迭代处理思想,提出一种消除椒盐噪声的迭代自适应中值滤波算法。在传统基于决策滤波方法基础上,所提算法自适应调整滤波窗口尺寸并计算滤波窗口内非椒盐像素中值以替换噪声像素,进而根据噪声密度自适应决定算法迭代次数,以完全消除椒盐噪声并恢复原始图像。仿真结果表明,对噪声密度为10%～99%的图像,与标准中值滤波及其4种改进算法相比,所提算法能较快消除椒盐噪声且可较好恢复原始图像细节。     

改进自适应中值滤波的图像去噪

传统自适应中值滤波的最大最小窗口尺寸固定,并且其最大最小窗口相差较大时,运算时间较长,去噪效果并小一定最佳。本文针对传统自适应中值滤波算法的不足,提出了改进自适应中值滤波算法,首先根据椒盐噪声的分布特点,从单幅含椒盐噪声图像中估算出椒盐噪声的浓度,并分析噪声浓度与自适应中值滤波窗口尺寸之间的关系,建立它们之间的函数关系一其次根据噪声浓度确定自适应中值滤波的最大最小窗口尺寸,最后对图像进行自适应中值滤波：实验结果表明本文算法运算时间随着噪声浓度的变化而变化,而且从PSNR角度来看本文去噪效果比传统自适应中值滤波效果较好。     

基于窗口的自适应中值滤波算法

滤波窗口是影响椒盐噪声滤除效果的重要因素。针对自适应中值滤波算法(RAMF)的不足,提出了一种基于窗口的自适应中值滤波算法。该算法分为噪声的检测和滤除两部分。在噪声检测部分,主要通过混合窗口检测出准噪声点,将其用窗口中值代替,而其余信号点保持不变。重复此方法,直至所有的准噪声点处理完毕。然后,在噪声滤除部分,主要根据噪声密度选择合适的最大滤波窗口半径,进而实现噪声滤除。最后,为验证算法的有效性开展了仿真研究,仿真结果表明本算法对椒盐噪声的滤除具有很好的效果,增强了图像的清晰度。     

一种图像椒盐噪声自适应滤除方法

在已有极值中值的滤波算法的基础上,提出一种自适应滤波算法.该算法对于不同椒盐噪声密度采用不同滤波方法,在噪声密度较低时,采用同时考虑灰度差值和空间距离的自适应权重函数进行滤波,在噪声密度较大时,扩大滤波窗口进行改进的中值滤波.实验证明,该算法在滤除椒盐噪声能力、细节保护能力方面均有较大提高.     

基于改进多级中值滤波的加权滤波算法

为了有效地抑制图像中的椒盐噪声,更好地保持图像细节,提出一种基于多级中值滤波的加权滤波算法。算法采用5×5滤波窗口,如果中心点为噪声点,则将滤波窗口划分为水平和垂直10个条形子窗口,先计算每个子窗口内所有非噪声点的均值,作为加权运算的基础值,然后求出这些基础值的中值,利用每个基础值与它们中值的差计算出每个基础值的相应权值。最后将这些基础值与对应权值进行加权运算,将结果替换中心点的像素值;如果中心点为非噪声点,则保持原值不变。实验结果表明,该算法对于高密度椒盐噪声污染的图像具有良好的去噪性能,并且较好地保持了图像的细节,效果优于传统的中值滤波算法和多级中值滤波算法。     

基于不同窗口形状下的CT图像中值滤波算法

CT作为医学影像工具,对CT图像的去噪声处理是医学图像预处理中的重要环节,中值滤波是传统滤波算法中对滤除椒盐噪声有较好滤波性能的方法之一,滤波窗口形状有着多样性。文中对于不同形状窗口进行了程序编写,研究了不同形状的滤波窗口、不同窗口大小的中值滤波算法对CT图像的去噪效果,这些影响到中值滤波中心像素值的选取以及滤波处理的计算量。实验结果表明,中值滤波的效果有差别,为改进中值滤波算法及对CT图像的去噪声处理提供了参考,同时也有利于研究中值滤波与其他滤波方法结合进行去噪声处理,可以更好地保留图像的细节。     

一种窗口自适应的去椒盐噪声滤波算法

为了有效地去除图像中的椒盐噪声,提出一种窗口自适应的滤波算法。算法先采用3×3窗口进行噪声检测,如果中心点为噪声点,则统计窗口内为非噪声点的数量。当非噪声点的数量大于2时,采用中值均值滤波算法;当非噪声点的数量小于等于2时,将窗口尺寸扩大至5×5,采用中值均值滤波算法。如果中心点为信号点,则保持原值不变直接输出。仿真实验结果证明,这种算法对不同程度椒盐噪声污染的图像具有较强的去噪能力,同时较好地保持了图像的细节。     

基于人眼视觉特性的自适应中值滤波算法

为了在滤除图像椒盐噪声的同时能很好地保持图像的细节,提出了一种基于人眼视觉特性(HVS)的自适应中值滤波算法.该方法首先采用基于HVS的噪声敏感系数作为阈值来确定噪声点,然后自适应调整滤波窗口大小,采用迭代中值滤波对噪声点进行滤波.该算法与标准中值(SM)滤波及其它改进中值滤波算法相比,具有更好的滤波性能.     

基于×字形窗口的自适应中值滤波算法

传统的中值滤波方法在去除脉冲噪声的同时会损失部分图像细节,且运行速度也不能很好地满足实时性要求。在此对Matlab工具箱中的中值滤波算法进行改进,提出一种基于×字形滤波窗口的自适应中值滤波算法。该方法具有根据3×3的×字形窗口中噪声点个数自适应调整滤波窗口大小及根据矩阵的对称性及基本的逻辑运算实现×字形窗口的特点。实验结果表明,与传统的方形窗口中值滤波算法相比,该方法在有效去除椒盐噪声和脉冲噪声的同时,较好地保持了图像细节,缩短了运行时间。     

一种快速去除高密度椒盐噪声的滤波算法

为了更好地恢复被高密度椒盐噪声污染的图像,在传统的自适应中值滤波算法的基础上提出了一种改进的自适应滤波算法。该算法将3×3矩形滤波窗口内极值点视为可疑噪声点,对可疑噪声点自适应调节滤波窗口大小进一步判断是否为噪声点;将噪声点区分为低密度噪声区噪声点和高密度噪声区噪声点,并分别用改进后的中值滤波算法、自适应修正后均值滤波算法处理,信号点保持不变。仿真结果表明,该算法处理速度快并且能够有效恢复被椒盐噪声(密度达80%)污染的图像,在去噪的同时能够很好地保护图像的细节。     

Using Sorted Switching Median Filter to remove high-density impulse noises

We propose a novel Sorted Switching Median Filter (i.e. SSMF) for effectively denoising extremely corrupted images while preserving the image details. The center pixel is considered as “uncorrupted” or “corrupted” noise in the detecting stage. The corrupted pixels that possess more noise-free surroundings will have higher processing priority in the SSMF sorting and filtering stages to rescue the heavily noisy neighbors. Five noise models are considered to assess the performance of the proposed SSMF algorithm. Several extensive simulation results conducted on both grayscale and color images with a wide range (from 10% to 90%) of noise corruption clearly show that the proposed SSMF substantially outperforms all other existing median-based filters.     

Similar neighbor criterion for impulse noise removal in images

In this paper, a new method is proposed for removing and restoring random-valued impulse noise in images. This approach is based on a similar neighbor criterion, in which any pixel to be considered as an original pixel it should have sufficient numbers of similar neighboring pixels in a set of filtering windows. Compared with other well known methods in the literature, this technique achieves superior performance in restoring heavily corrupted noisy images. Furthermore, it has low computational complexity, and equally effective in restoring corrupted color and gray-level images.     

A new method to remove random-valued impulse noise in images

This paper presents a new method for detecting random-valued impulse noise (RVIN) in images. The proposed method is based on similar valued neighbor criterion and the detection of the noisy pixels are realized in maximum four phases. After the corrupted pixels detected in each phase, the median filtering is performed for only these pixels. As such, corrupted pixels are suppressed gradually at the end of the each phase. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated on different test images and compared with ten different comparison filters from the literature. It is shown from simulation results that proposed method provides a significant improvement over comparison filters.     

基于相关度量的高椒盐噪声软阈值直方图滤波算法

利用图像邻域相关和直方图对椒盐噪声的鲁棒性,提出了一种针对高椒盐噪声图像的软阈值直方图加权滤波算法.对邻域灰度相关进行了量化分析,定义了灰度相关函数作为信号邻域相关性的度量,并将该系数作为直方图加权滤波算法的软阈值,根据像素被判定为噪声或有效信号的概率,自行调整滤波强度,减少图像滤波处理中的细节损失.仿真结果表明,对于高椒盐噪声图像,本算法在椒盐噪声滤除方面有良好的表现.     

A switching median filter with boundary discriminative noise detection for extremely corrupted images.

A novel switching median filter incorporating with a powerful impulse noise detection method, called the boundary discriminative noise detection (BDND), is proposed in this paper for effectively denoising extremely corrupted images. To determine whether the current pixel is corrupted, the proposed BDND algorithm first classifies the pixels of a localized window, centering on the current pixel, into three groups--lower intensity impulse noise, uncorrupted pixels, and higher intensity impulse noise. The center pixel will then be considered as "uncorrupted," provided that it belongs to the "uncorrupted" pixel group, or "corrupted." For that, two boundaries that discriminate these three groups require to be accurately determined for yielding a very high noise detection accuracy--in our case, achieving zero miss-detection rate while maintaining a fairly low false-alarm rate, even up to 70% noise corruption. Four noise models are considered for performance evaluation. Extensive simulation results conducted on both monochrome and color images under a wide range (from 10% to 90%) of noise corruption clearly show that our proposed switching median filter substantially outperforms all existing median-based filters, in terms of suppressing impulse noise while preserving image details, and yet, the proposed BDND is algorithmically simple, suitable for real-time implementation and application.     

Erratum to: Multi-scale directional-filtering-based method for follicular lymphoma grading

A new decision-based algorithm has been proposed for the restoration of digital images which are highly contaminated by the saturated impulse noise (i.e., salt-and-pepper noise). The proposed denoising algorithm performs filtering operation only to the corrupted pixels in the image, keeping uncorrupted pixels intact. The present study has used a coupled window scheme for the removal of high density noise. It has used sliding window of increasing dimension, centered at any pixel and replaced the noisy pixels consecutively by the median value of the window. However, if the entire pixels in the window are noisy, then the dimension of sliding window is increased in order to obtain the noise-free pixels for median calculation. Consequently, this algorithm has been found to be able to remove the high density salt-and-pepper noise and also preserved the fine details of the four images, Lena, Elaine, Rhythm, and Sunny, used as test images in this study (The latter two real-life images have been acquired using Sony: Steady Shot DSC- S3000). Experimentally, it has been found that the proposed algorithm yields better peak signal-to-noise ratio, image enhancement factor, structural similarity index measure and image quality index, compared with the other state-of-art median-based filters viz. standard median filter, adaptive median filter, progressive switched median filter, modified decision-based algorithm and modified decision-based unsymmetric trimmed median filter.     

Fast switching based median–mean filter for high density salt and pepper noise removal

This paper proposes a fast switching based median–mean filter for high density salt and pepper noise in images. The extreme minimum value and extreme maximum value of the noisy image are used to identify the noise pixels. In the filtering stage, the corrupted pixel is replaced either by median value or mean value based on the number of noise free pixels in the filtering window. The qualitative and quantitative results show that the proposed filter outperforms the other switching based filters namely ACWMF, PSMF, AMF, DBA and MDBUTMF in terms of noise removal and edge preservation for noise densities varying from 10% to 90%.     

Robust adaptive estimator for filtering noise in images

Provides three new methods for storing images corrupted by additive noise. One is the adaptive mean median filter for preserving the details of images when restored from additive Gaussian noise. Another is the minimum-maximum method for moving outlier noise. The third method, the robust adaptive mean p-median filter, is based on a combination of the previous two methods. In the past, proposed restoration methods have generally proven to be inadequate for both detail preservation and noise suppression, but the new adaptive mean p-median filter is shown to be good at both of these tasks, while the robust adaptive mean p-median filter can give good performance even in the presence of outliers. Degraded images are processed by the proposed algorithms, with the results compared with a selection of other median-based algorithms that have been proposed in the literature.     

Salt-and-pepper noise removal by adaptive median-based lifting filter using second-generation wavelets

In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive median-based lifting filter for image de-noising which has been corrupted by homogeneous salt and pepper noise. The median-based lifting filter removes the noise of the input image by calculating the median of the neighboring significant pixels. The algorithm for image noise removal uses the lifting scheme of the second-generation wavelets in conjunction with the proposed adaptive median-based lifting filter. The experimental results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method. The proposed algorithm is compared with all the basic filters, and it is found that our method outperforms many other algorithms and it can remove salt and pepper noise with a noise level as high as 90%. The algorithm works exceedingly well for all levels of noise, as illustrated in terms of peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and structural similarity index (SSIM) measures.     

An Analog–Digital Hardware for L-Estimate Space-Varying Image Filtering

An analog–digital hardware solution for implementation of the L-estimate space-varying filtering has been proposed. The considered filter form is based on the robust space/spatial-frequency representation and provides efficient denoising of two-dimensional signals/images corrupted by heavy-tailed noise. Moreover, for images with fast-varying details and textures, the L-estimate filtering outperforms the commonly used filters. However, it requires significant processing time, since the space/spatial-frequency representation is calculated for each pixel, on a window by window basis. Therefore, in order to make it feasible for practical applications, a fast implementation of L-estimate space-varying filtering is proposed using a combined analog–digital approach. It provides efficient real-time processing of images corrupted by strong mixed Gaussian and impulse noise.