New decision-based trimmed median filter for high-density salt-and-pepper noise removal in images

Vaithiyam Rengarajan Vijaykumar; Guru Santhanamari

doi:10.1117/1.JEI.23.3.033011

9 June 2014 New decision-based trimmed median filter for high-density salt-and-pepper noise removal in images

Vaithiyam Rengarajan Vijaykumar, Guru Santhanamari

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Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 23, Issue 3, 033011 (June 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.23.3.033011

Abstract

A new switching-based trimmed median filter to remove high-density salt-and-pepper noise in digital images is proposed. Initially, a 3×3 sliding window is applied on each pixel in the noisy image. The minimum- and maximum-intensity values are trimmed, and the noisy pixels are detected based on the predefined threshold value. In the filtering stage, the noisy pixels are replaced by median value of uncorrupted pixels in the trimmed array. At very high noise density, if all the pixels in the sliding window are corrupted, then the proposed algorithm replaces noisy pixels by the midpoint of recently processed pixels. The experimental results for various test images show that the performance of the proposed algorithm is superior to the existing algorithms, namely SMF, WMF, CWMF, AMF, DBA, and MDBUTMF in terms of visual quality and edge preservation, even at noise levels as high as 95%.

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Vaithiyam Rengarajan Vijaykumar and Guru Santhanamari "New decision-based trimmed median filter for high-density salt-and-pepper noise removal in images," Journal of Electronic Imaging 23(3), 033011 (9 June 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.23.3.033011

Published: 9 June 2014

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