A new impulse detector based on order statistics

The acquisition or transmission of digital images through sensors or communication channels is often interfered by impulse noise. It is very important to eliminate noise in the images before subsequent processing, such as image segmentation, object recognition, and edge detection. In this letter, a novel impulse noise-detection algorithm is presented, which can remove impulse noise from corrupted images successfully, and at the same time, without eliminating image details. The algorithm is based on the order statistics within a local window. Although our method is low in complexity when compared with some other complicated algorithms, experimental results show that it produces better restored images than many other existing techniques.     

一种针对图像脉冲噪声的改进中值滤波算法

针对中值滤波算法在图像脉冲噪声处理中存在的不足,提出一种新的改进中值滤波算法.该方法根据噪声图像的极值和像素点滤波窗口的局部信息对滤波窗口内像素点(含待处理像素点)是否为噪声点进行判断,剔除滤波窗口内的噪声点,然后根据新的滤波窗口及待滤波的中心像素点灰度值信息进行滤波操作.以迭代的方法更新噪声图像中的每个像素点,从而去除图像中的脉冲噪声.实验结果表明,与传统中值、加权中值、多级中值滤波方法相比,该方法能有效去除图像中的脉冲噪声,并保持图像细节特征完整.     

Quaternion switching filter for impulse noise reduction in color image

A novel approach to impulse noise reduction in color image is introduced in this paper. By applying the quaternion unit transform theory, the difference between two color pixels can be represented in the quaternion form. Based on the difference mentioned above, an efficient filter that can switch between the vector median filter (VMF) and the identity filter (no filtering operation) is proposed. Extensive simulation result indicates that the proposed filter achieves a trade-off between noise suppression and detail preservation in both correlated and uncorrelated impulse noise scenarios when compared with other widely used filters. Furthermore, the computational complexity analysis shows that the proposed filter is quite efficient.     

An L0 regularized cartoon-texture decomposition model for restoring images corrupted by blur and impulse noise

In this paper, we address the image restoration case that includes both blurring and impulse noise. To recover an image with abundant features, we propose an L0 regularized cartoon-texture model for the simultaneous deblurring and impulse noise removal problem. We propose an L0 regularized framelet-based sparse representation and L0 regularized discrete cosine transform (DCT)-based sparse approximation to model the cartoon and texture of images, respectively. Unlike other cartoon-texture decomposition based-restoration approaches, our method does not depend on local features but globally controls the important non-zero components of the cartoon and texture in the framelet and DCT domain. Furthermore, we develop an alternating half-quadratic splitting method to solve the proposed L0 regularized cartoon-texture deblurring and impulse noise removal model (L0_RCTDINR) by introducing an alternating algorithm into the half-quadratic method. Experiments show the effectiveness of L0_RCTDINR on deblurring and impulse noise removal compared with existing state-of-the-art methods.     

一种快速的彩色图像矢量中值滤波算法

文章提出一种新的快速矢量中值滤波算法。首先，求取象素的方向区域距离测度并将滤波窗口划分为两个子窗口：然后，在子窗口内进行矢量中值滤波。实验结果表明，该算法速度快，具有较好的滤波效果。     

An effective 2-stage method for removing impulse noise in images

In this paper, a robust 2-stage impulse noise removal system is proposed to remove impulse noise from extremely corrupted images. The contributions are in two-fold. First, a neuro-fuzzy based impulse noise detector (NFIDET) is introduced to identify the noisy pixels. NFIDET is a powerful noise detector that can handle image corruption even up to 90% with zero miss and false detection rate with a simple neuro-fuzzy structure. This is the best result among the other impulse noise detectors in the literature. Second, this paper presents a new approach for weight calculation of adaptive weighted mean filter by using robust statistical model. An adaptive robust weighted mean (ARWM) filter removes a detected noisy pixel by adaptively determining filtering window size and replacing a noisy pixel with the weighted mean of the noise-free pixels in its window. A Geman–McClure robust estimation function is used to estimate the weights of the pixels. Simulation results also show that the proposed robust filter substantially outperforms many other existing algorithms in terms of image restoration.     

A new filter for the removal of random-valued impulse noise from highly corrupted images

In this paper, we present a new two-stage filter for the removal of random-valued impulse noise. The new filter identifies noise candidates by analyzing the amount of similar pixels in intensity value, and then reconstructs them by the total variation inpainting method. The experimental results are reported which show the efficiency of our method in removing random-valued impulse noise. Further, our filter can be used for image restoration from images damaged by the superimposed artifacts.     

Adaptive 3-D median filtering for restoration of an image sequence corrupted by impulse noise

An adaptive 3-D median filtering, which achieves optimal image quality as well as fast computing time, is proposed to remove the impulse noise from a highly corrupted image sequence. The proposed algorithm is compared with the widely used impulse noise removal algorithms with respect to the peak signal-to-noise ratio and the number of computations. The proposed algorithm preserves the image details which are not expected to be corrupted by impulse noise so that the number of computations can be minimized. It has good restoration performance whether the number of pixels corrupted by impulse noise is large or small. In the proposed algorithm, the impulse noise ratio, which is the ratio of the number of pixels corrupted by impulse noise to the total number of pixels, is estimated, and the restoration filtering is adaptively applied based on the estimated impulse noise ratio.     

自适应背景对消方法

本文讨论了一种新的红外图象预处理算法—自适应背景对消算法。这种算法的基本出发点是自适应L滤波具有很好的消除脉冲噪声的特性，红外图象中的点目标具有脉冲噪声的特性和红外噪声的相关特性。实验表明这种算法在某种程度上去除了原始图象噪声的相关性并且能明显的抑制背景噪声和显著提高信杂比。     

基于噪声分离和小波阈值自适应图像去噪算法

针对VisuShrink小波阈值滤波算法的不足和混合噪声的情况,提出了一种基于噪声分离和尺度的自适应混合图像去噪算法.算法首先通过极值检测分离脉冲噪声和高斯噪声,然后分别对脉冲噪声应用多窗口中值滤波及高斯噪声应用基于尺度的小波阈值滤波完成去噪.实验表明,该混合滤波算法能有效去除图像中的脉冲噪声和高斯噪声,并较好地保存了...     

一种基于中值-模糊技术的混合噪声滤波器

结合中值与模糊滤波技术,提出了一种新的图像混合噪声滤波算法。算法将受混合噪声污染的图像分为脉冲噪声点集与含有高斯噪声的像素点集两部分,首先进行灰度极值检测,进而借助邻域纹理信息准确检测出脉冲噪声,并以中值滤波滤除;对于含有高斯噪声的像素点则采用一种保护细节的模糊滤波器进行处理。实验结果说明算法不仅能有效地滤除脉冲与高斯混合噪声,而且可以较好地保护图像细节。     

Nonlinear suppression of autoregressive impulse noise in on-off binary communications

A novel method is proposed to combat an impulse noise in on-off binary communication. The method is based on modeling of the impulse noise using the autoregressive model. This approach does not require explicit a priori knowledge of the impulse noise statistics. The performance of the resulting algorithm is analyzed using computer simulation. It is shown that essentially power-independent reception may be achieved under conditions of impulse noise. It is also shown that the proposed technique greatly improves the system performance even when the Gaussian noise is added to the receiver input mixture. However, the improvement diminishes as the impulse-noise-to-Gaussian-noise ratio decreases.     

脉冲噪声图像的中-均值滤波算法

由于在图像信息的获取和传输过程中,图像常常受到不同程度的脉冲噪声污染。为了有效地去除高浓度脉冲噪声,提出了一种基于中－均值滤波器的噪声去除算法。该方法根据脉冲噪声特点,设定一个简单的噪声检测算子,根据噪声检测结果设定自适应滤波窗口,同时根据噪声密度选择中值和均值滤波器。为了更加有效地保留图像的原有信息,对非噪声点不做滤波处理。仿真结果表明,所提出的中－均值滤波方法不仅能有效地去除高浓度的脉冲噪声,而且能很好地保留图像的原有信息,并具有较短的滤波处理时间。     

Edge preserving adaptive anisotropic diffusion filter approach for the suppression of impulse noise in images

This paper proposes a new anisotropic diffusion approach to remove the impulse noise and retain the fine details. The proposed approach contains two stages, the first stage detects the impulse noise, and the second stage removes the noisy pixel and retains the fine details of the original image. The Laplacian operator is used to fine-tune the image quality of the restored image in the anisotropic diffusion filter. The proposed approach is tested with PSNR, IEF, correlation factor, and NSER for different test images and the results are compared against existing algorithms. The simulation results show that the proposed approach gives better results than the existing denoising algorithms.     

Color image noise removal algorithm utilizing hybrid vector filtering

This paper proposes a robust approach to color image noise removal that efficiently eliminates noisy pixels by exploiting several vector-class characteristics of multichannel pixels. This algorithm treats multichannel images as a vector class and takes both magnitude and phase angles of the pixel vectors into consideration. It consists of two steps: an efficient noise detector based on pixel vector angle statistics and impulse noise filtering with a hybrid of vector magnitude and vector angle function. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach significantly outperforms several other well-known techniques for color image noise removal.     

A Universal Impulse Noise Filter with an Impulse Detector and Nonlocal Means

In this paper, we propose an efficient filter for universal impulse noise removal. Operation is carried out in two stages: impulse detection followed by filtering. For detection, a robust local image statistic, called the extremum compression rank-order absolute difference (ECROAD), is designed to detect impulse noise in an image. For filtering, a universal impulse noise filter is proposed by combining the ECROAD statistic with the nonlocal means (NLM). The inherited switching behavior will preserve image details by selecting possible “noise pixels” for processing. Meanwhile, the joint impulsive weight is able to avoid the effect of impulsive components in restoring candidates. Simulation results show that the proposed filter produces excellent results and outperforms most existing filters for different impulse noise models.     

一种有效的混合噪声滤波算法

以噪声特点和图像结构分析为基础,提出了一种有效的混合噪声滤除算法。算法首先通过极值判断和像素间的相容性检测,分离出脉冲噪声并以中值滤波滤除;然后对含有高斯噪声的图像以模糊滤波算法进行降噪处理。实验结果表明,本算法能有效地滤除图像中脉冲与高斯混合噪声,且较好地保护了图像细节特征。     

Edge-Preserving Regularized Filter with Spatial Local Outlier Measure and Q-Estimate

This paper presents an efficient random-valued impulse noise removal algorithm. The filtering process contains two phases: a detection phase followed by a filtering phase. In the detection phase, the proposed method uses the novel image statistics, the spatial local outlier measure (SLOM) and the Q-estimate, to identify impulses in a corrupted image. When the noise pixels are identified, their values are restored by an edge-preserving regularized method in the filtering phase. Extensive experimental results show that our filter provides a significant improvement over many other existing techniques.     

基于PCNN噪声检测的两级脉冲噪声滤波算法

为有效滤除图像中严重脉冲噪声干扰,提出了一种基于改进型脉冲耦合神经网络(PCNN)噪声检测的两级脉冲噪声滤除算法。该算法首先利用PCNN同步脉冲发放特性区分定位噪声点和信号点位置,其次根据噪声点局部邻域信息对噪声进行第1级自适应滤波,然后再利用具有保护边缘细节特点的多方向信息中值滤波器(MF进行第2级辅助滤波。实验结果表明,该算法在噪声检测中无需设定检测阈值,噪声检测精度较高;在去噪过程中不但有效滤除噪声干扰,而且能很好地保护图像边缘细节等信息,具有较好的主观视觉效果和客观评价指标,比传统MF及其它相关算法有更优的滤波性能,去噪能力强、信噪比高和适应性好,特别是对受严重噪声污染的图像,显示了更大的优越性。     

多载波电力线通信系统脉冲噪声处理方法研究

OFDM用于实现高速电力线通信已经越来越受关注。脉冲噪声是电力线信道的主要干扰之一,它是突发性、高幅度和低概率的噪声。持续时间很短的脉冲包含了所有子信道的频谱成分,会影响所有子信道上传输符号的判决。该文分析了时域和频域两种检测算法的虚警率和漏检率等性能,提出接收机通过计算时域和频域中接收符号的幅值来检测脉冲的存在及其在OFDM符号内的起始位置。被脉冲噪声污染的样本利用保护频带的冗余来进行恢复,仿真结果显示在选择合适的阈值的情况下,该算法在低信噪比下取得了良好的性能增益。