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。     

A Fast Adaptive Salt and Pepper Noise Reduction Method in Images

In this paper, an effective filtering method is proposed to remove impulse noise from images. In this two-stage method, detected noise-free pixels remain unchanged. Afterwards, a Gaussian filter with adaptive variances according to the image noise level is applied on the noisy pixels. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms recent impulse denoising methods in terms of PSNR, MAE, IEF, and SSIM. Moreover, the speed of the method is comparable with them, and it can be used effectively in real-time applications.     

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。     

Switching impulse noise filter based on Laplacian convolution and pixels grouping for color images

This paper presents a new switching filter consisting of three steps to restore color images corrupted by impulse noise. Firstly, Laplacian convolution is performed on pixels in four directions to mark the pixels which are radically different in value from neighboring pixels as noise candidates. Secondly, those missed neighboring pixels involved in the step of pixels grouping decrease the occurrence of false detection. Pixels in the observation window are separated into noisy pixels and normal pixels with a dividing threshold, whose value is assigned according to a noise density estimator. Finally, a modified arithmetic mean filter is applied to restore the polluted image. Extensive experiments show that the proposed method achieves better performance than comparative methods in terms of peak-signal-to-noise ratio and structural similarity. The proposed method can effectively remove impulse noise in which noise density is varying from 10 to 80%.     

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.     

一种新的图像去噪混合滤波方法

为了去除图像中混入的脉冲噪声和高斯噪声,提出了一种基于自适应中值滤波和模糊加权均值滤波的混合滤波方法.该方法首先进行噪声检测把受高斯型噪声污染的像素和受脉冲型噪声污染的像素区别开来,然后对受高斯噪声污染的像素采用模糊加权均值滤波算法,而对受脉冲噪声污染的像素则采用改进的中值滤波算法进行去噪.仿真结果证明,该方法更具有实用性和有效性.     

Difference-type noise detector for adaptive median filter

Noise detection-based median filters have been widely applied to impulse noise reduction. However, the number of pixels misclassified is obviously increased in high noise density. To overcome such drawback, a difference-type noise detector is proposed. In image filtering, a noise detection-based adaptive median algorithm is presented. Experimental results show that the proposed filter can well remove the impulse noise and preserve more details of original images.     

Adaptive two-pass rank order filter to remove impulse noise in highly corrupted images

In this paper, we present an adaptive two-pass rank order filter to remove impulse noise in highly corrupted images. When the noise ratio is high, rank order filters, such as the median filter for example, can produce unsatisfactory results. Better results can be obtained by applying the filter twice, which we call two-pass filtering. To further improve the performance, we develop an adaptive two-pass rank order filter. Between the passes of filtering, an adaptive process is used to detect irregularities in the spatial distribution of the estimated impulse noise. The adaptive process then selectively replaces some pixels changed by the first pass of filtering with their original observed pixel values. These pixels are then kept unchanged during the second filtering. In combination, the adaptive process and the second filter eliminate more impulse noise and restore some pixels that are mistakenly altered by the first filtering. As a final result, the reconstructed image maintains a higher degree of fidelity and has a smaller amount of noise. The idea of adaptive two-pass processing can be applied to many rank order filters, such as a center-weighted median filter (CWMF), adaptive CWMF, lower-upper-middle filter, and soft-decision rank-order-mean filter. Results from computer simulations are used to demonstrate the performance of this type of adaptation using a number of basic rank order filters.     

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。     

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.     

基于人眼视觉特性的混合滤波算法

为了有效地滤除混合噪声,本文提出了一种基于人眼视觉特性的混合滤波算法。该方法首先采用基于人眼视觉特性的噪声敏感系数作为阈值来确定脉冲噪声点,对检测出脉冲噪声点采用自适应窗口大小的迭代中值滤波进行滤波,而对于含有高斯噪声的像素点则采用一种保护细节的改进的自适应模糊滤波器进行处理。该算法与标准滤波方法及其它改进混合滤波算法相比,具有更好的滤波性能。     

A new efficient approach for the removal of impulse noise fromhighly corrupted images

A new framework for removing impulse noise from images is presented in which the nature of the filtering operation is conditioned on a state variable defined as the output of a classifier that operates on the differences between the input pixel and the remaining rank-ordered pixels in a sliding window. As part of this framework, several algorithms are examined, each of which is applicable to fixed and random-valued impulse noise models. First, a simple two-state approach is described in which the algorithm switches between the output of an identity filter and a rank-ordered mean (ROM) filter. The technique achieves an excellent tradeoff between noise suppression and detail preservation with little increase in computational complexity over the simple median filter. For a small additional cost in memory, this simple strategy is easily generalized into a multistate approach using weighted combinations of the identity and ROM filter in which the weighting coefficients can be optimized using image training data. Extensive simulations indicate that these methods perform significantly better in terms of noise suppression and detail preservation than a number of existing nonlinear techniques with as much as 40% impulse noise corruption. Moreover, the method can effectively restore images corrupted with Gaussian noise and mixed Gaussian and impulse noise. Finally, the method is shown to be extremely robust with respect to the training data and the percentage of impulse noise.     

Cognition and removal of impulse noise with uncertainty

Uncertainties are the major inherent feature of impulse noise. This fact makes image denoising a difficult task. Understanding the uncertainties can improve the performance of image denoising. This paper presents a novel adaptive detail-preserving filter based on the cloud model (CM) to remove impulse noise. It is called the CM filter. First, an uncertainty-based detector identifies the pixels corrupted by impulse noise. Then, a weighted fuzzy mean filter is applied to remove the noise candidates. The experimental results show that, compared with the traditional switching filters, the CM filter makes a great improvement in image denoising. Even at a noise level as high as 95%, the CM filter still can restore the image with good detail preservation.     

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...     

基于同态滤波和全变差的激光图像降噪方法

针对激光主动成像图像的特点,提出了一种基于同态滤波和全变差的图像降噪方法.首先对图像进行同态滤波,提高图像的对比度并去除激光图像的散斑噪声,然后采用基于最小化全变差模型去除激光图像的高斯噪声和脉冲噪声.采用信噪比、对比度和亮度失真度作为图像降噪效果的评估,将算法与中值降噪、小波与中值滤波结合降噪等进行对比实验,实验结果...     

An improved recursive and adaptive median filter for high density impulse noise

An improved recursive and adaptive median filter (RAMF) for the restoration of images corrupted with high density impulse noise is proposed in the present paper. Adaptive operation of the filter is justified with the variation in size of working window which is centered at noisy pixels. Based on the presence of noise-free pixel(s), the size of working window changes. The noisy pixels are filtered through the replacement of their values using both noise-free pixels of the current working window and previously processed noisy pixels of that window. These processed noisy pixels are obtained recursively. The combined effort thus provides an improved platform for filtering high density impulse noise of images. Experimental results with several real-time noisy images show that the proposed RAMF outperforms other state-of-the-art filters quantitatively in terms of peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and image enhancement factor (IEF). The superiority of the filter is also justified qualitatively through visual interpretation.     

基于噪声估计的自适应开关型中值滤波器

提出了一种基于噪声估计的自适应开关型中值滤波器(IASMNE,improved adaptive switching median filter based on noise estimation)。IASMNE以图像经小波变换后在不同尺度和不同方向提取的子带滤波系数值的统计信息构成刻画图像受噪声干扰程度的特征矢量,在大量噪声图像上获得的特征矢量为学习数据集,并利用支持向量回归(SVR)分析实现对图像中噪声比例的准确估计。基于此,IASMNE对高、中、低不同噪声比例图像启动不同的滤波策略,并灵活设置滤波参数。大量实验表明,与其它开关型滤波器相比,IASMNE能够合理地根据图像噪声干扰程度进行最佳滤波,尤其是对于大于70%的椒盐噪声(SPN)能够大幅度提高图像质量。     

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.     

一种改进的自适应中值滤波算法

针对传统自适应中值滤波算法的不足,文中提出了一种改进的自适应中值滤波方法,以有效的去除图像中的高密度脉冲噪声。第一,对于噪声点的检测,首先利用极大值和极小值的数量差找出可疑的噪声点,再利用邻域像素的相似性判断可疑点是否为噪声点。第二,对于滤波中值的计算,先把滤波窗口内具有相同灰度值的极值点压缩到一个,然后再计算中值。实验结果表明,该算法的滤波效果优于传统自适应中值滤波,且具有较好的稳定性。     

Adaptive switching mean filter using conditional morphological noise detector

The adaptive switching mean (ASM) filter is proposed to remove impulse noise. The filter first identifies the corrupted pixels using conditional morphological noise detection and then removes the detected impulses using the adaptive mean filter. Simulation results indicate that the ASM filter can suppress impulse noise effectively while preserving the details in the image very well, thus providing better restoration performance than many other switching-based filters.