基于噪声估计和双加权的彩色图像矢量中值滤波

针对彩色图像椒盐噪声滤除中保护色彩和细节这个关键问题,提出了一种基于噪声估计和双加权的滤波新算法.噪声估计采用二级估计策略,第1级基于灰度最大、最小值进行粗估计,第2级采用加权方向算子进行精估计.对非噪声点保持像素灰度不变,对噪声点设计了空间和灰度双加权的矢量中值滤波算法(VMF).实验结果表明,新算法对低、中密度的彩...     

Local pixel statistics based impulse detection and hybrid color filtering for restoration of digital color images

This paper presents a two stage filtering system to remove random valued impulse noise from color images based on local statistics of the filtering window under consideration. In the first stage, to detect the noisy pixel, the locally adaptive threshold is derived from the pixels of the filtering window. In the second stage, the restoration of the noisy pixel is done on the basis of brightness and chromaticity information obtained from the neighbouring pixels in the filtering window. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme yields much superior performance in comparison with other color image filtering methods.     

Color impulsive noise removal based on quaternion representation and directional vector order-statistics

A new method for detecting and suppressing impulsive noise in color images is presented in this paper. The proposed method is a type of switching vector filters, where the impulse detection is based on the order-statistic information about the color samples in the horizontal, vertical, and diagonal directions. The new solution first uses quaternion-based representation of color differences and median deviation-based techniques to search for the edge direction with the maximum number of similar pixels, and then utilizes the samples aligning with this edge direction to judge whether the current pixel is noisy or not and control the switching between identity (no filtering) and vector median filtering actions. Extensive experimental comparisons exhibit the validity of the proposed approach by showing significant performance improvements over other well-known color image filtering techniques.     

Impulsive noise filtering based on noise detection in corrupted digital color images

This paper is an enhancement to our earlier research with grey-scale images. In this paper, we propose two new detection-estimation based image filtering algorithms that effectively remove corrupted pixels with impulsive noise in digital color images. The existing methods for enhancing corrupted color images typically possess inherent problems in computation time and smoothing out edges because all pixels are filtered. Our proposed algorithms first classify corrupted pixels in each channel or in each pixel. Because marginal or vector median filtering is only performed for the classified pixels, the process is computationally efficient, and edges are preserved well. In addition, because there is no appropriate criterion to evaluate the performance of impulsive noise detectors for color images, the objective comparison of noise detectors is difficult. Thus, we introduce a new efficiency factor for comparing the performance of noise detectors in digital color images. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithms perform better than existing methods, in both objective and subjective evaluations.This work was supported by the Korea Science & Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) under grant no. 981-0912-057-2.     

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.     

Novel peer group filtering method based on the CIELab color space for impulse noise reduction

This paper presents a novel peer group filtering method for impulsive noise reduction. The main contributions of the proposed method are twofold. First, noise detection is performed in the CIELab, instead of the RGB, color space to enhance the noise detection effect. Secondly, two different-sized windows are used to determine the peer group for deducing more accurate status of each pixel, alleviating the problem of deducing non-corrupted pixels as corrupted in the neighborhood of edges in the textural regions. Based on five typical test color images, experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves better performance in noise detection and hence noise reduction when compared to five existing competitive 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。     

Monochromatic-Based Method for Impulse Noise Detection and Suppression in Color Images

A new method to detect and reduce the impulse noise in color images is presented in this paper. The method consists of two stages: detection and filtering. Since each of the individual channels (components) of the color image can be considered as a monochrome image, both stages are applied to each channel separately, and then the individual results are combined into one output image. The corrupted pixels are detected in the first stage based on a proposed innovative switching technique. The noise-free pixels are copied to their corresponding locations in the output image. In the second stage, average filtering is applied only to those pixels which are determined to be noisy in the first stage, and only noise-free pixel values are involved in calculating this average. The size of the sliding window depends on the estimated noise density and is very small even for high noise densities. The proposed method is effective in noise reduction while preserving edge details and color chromaticity. Simulation results show that the proposed method outperforms all the tested existing state-of-the-art methods used in digital color image restoration in both standard objective measurements and perceived image quality.     

基于灰色关联度的图像混合噪声的自适应滤波算法

利用中值滤波和灰色关联度的特点,提出基于中值滤波和灰色关联度相结合的混合噪声图像滤波算法.算法选取加窗混合噪声图像的中值,采用灰色关联度自适应地计算各像素的加权系数,通过加权得到结果.实验结果表明,该算法有较好的自适应性,不但能够有效去除含有高斯噪声和脉冲噪声的图像噪声,而且能较好地保护图像的细节信息,提高图像的去噪效果和清晰度.     

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。     

基于细节保留的椒盐噪声自适应滤波算法

针对灰度图像中椒盐噪声的特点,提出了一种更加精确的噪声检测方法:该方法利用滤波窗口内像素点灰度值的不同,将受椒盐噪声污染的图像中像素点划分为噪声点,疑似噪声点和信号点.通过设定阈值,并参考相邻像素点的相关性来进一步区分疑似噪声点,最终建立噪声标记矩阵.对于被标记的噪声点,采用自适应滤波算法,保留更多的图像细节.仿真结果表明,该算法在除去噪声点的同时,对于边缘细节也有非常好的保护作用.     

A robust structure-adaptive hybrid vector filter for color image restoration.

A robust structure-adaptive hybrid vector filter is proposed for digital color image restoration in this paper. At each pixel location, the image vector (i.e., pixel) is first classified into several different signal activity categories by applying a modified quadtree decomposition to luminance component (image) of the input color image. A weight-adaptive vector filtering operation with an optimal window is then activated to achieve the best tradeoff between noise suppression and detail preservation. Through extensive simulation experiments conducted using a wide range of test color images, the filter has demonstrated superior performance to that of a number of well known benchmark techniques, in terms of both standard objective measurements and perceived image quality, in suppressing several distinct types of noise commonly considered in color image restoration, including Gaussian noise, impulse noise, and mixed noise.     

A new fuzzy-based decision algorithm for high-density impulse noise removal

This paper proposes a new efficient fuzzy-based decision algorithm (FBDA) for the restoration of images that are corrupted with high density of impulse noises. FBDA is a fuzzy-based switching median filter in which the filtering is applied only to corrupted pixels in the image while the uncorrupted pixels are left unchanged. The proposed algorithm computes the difference measure for each pixel based on the central pixel (corrupted pixel) in a selected window and then calculates the membership value for each pixel based on the highest difference. The algorithm then eliminates those pixels from the window with very high and very low membership values, which might represent the impulse noises. Median filter is then applied to the remaining pixels in the window to get the restored value for the current pixel position. The proposed algorithm produces excellent results compared to conventional method such as standard median filter (SMF) as well as some advanced techniques such as adaptive median filters (AMF), efficient decision-based algorithm (EDBA), improved efficient decision-based algorithm (IDBA) and boundary discriminative noise detection (BDND) switching median filter. The efficiency of the proposed algorithm is evaluated using different standard images. From experimental analysis, it has been found that FBDA produces better results in terms of both quantitative measures such as PSNR, SSIM, IEF and qualitative measures such as Image Quality Index (IQI).     

一种改进的高亮度区域肤色像素检测算法

高亮度条件下肤色和非肤色具有很高的相似性,导致高亮度肤色像素的检测一直是基于肤色分割的一个难点。为了提高肤色分割的效果,提出一种能够检测出图像中高亮度肤色区域的方法。首先在YCbCr颜色空间中利用阈值自适应的单高斯模型检测出图像中具有正常亮度的肤色像素,再结合像素的邻域信息和亮度边缘信息进一步检测出图像中高亮度区域的肤色像素,有效地解决了传统肤色检测方法对高亮度肤色区域漏检的问题。实验结果表明,采用该算法可以较准确地检测出图像中的高亮度肤色区域。     

去除椒盐噪声的非对称有向窗加权均值滤波

针对传统滤波对称窗口在图像边缘处会引入干扰像素引起图像模糊的问题,提出一种非对称有向窗加权均值滤波算法.首先,基于区域极值进行噪声检测;其次,在对称有向窗的基础上提出非对称有向窗的概念,对于噪声点,通过标准差最小的原则自适应选择非对称有向滤波窗口;然后,在选择的非对称有向滤波窗口内对噪声点进行自适应基于距离倒数的加权均...     

Improved median filter using minmax algorithm for image processing

A new algorithm which incorporates standard median filtering is proposed for effectively removing impulsive noise in image processing. This computationally efficient approach first classifies input pixels and then performs a median filtering process. Simulation results show that the new scheme, regardless of high or low SNR, displays a superior mean square error (MSE) over standard median filters     

快速高效去除图像椒盐噪声的均值滤波算法

针对常见滤除椒盐噪声算法需要使用阈值、运算时间长、去除噪声效果不理想等缺陷,提出了一种快速高效去除图像椒盐噪声的均值滤波算法。新算法对滤波窗口下的疑似噪声像素,有针对性地选择少数信号像素构成信号像素集合,取集合中的元素均值对疑似噪声像素进行滤波。实验结果表明,对于噪声密度为1%到99%的图像,新算法均具有良好的去除噪声能力和保持细节能力,而且整个算法耗费时间很少,因而具有较大的实用性。     

Multichannel image processing by using the Rank M-type L-filter

In this paper, we introduce the Vector Rank M-type L (VRML)-filter to remove impulsive noise from color images and video sequences. The proposed filter uses the Median M-type (MM) and Ansari-Bradley-Siegel-Tukey M-type (AM) estimators into L-filter to provide robustness to proposed filtering scheme. We also introduce the use of impulsive noise detectors to improve the properties of noise suppression and detail preservation in the proposed filtering scheme in the case of low and high densities of impulsive noise. Simulation results indicate that the proposed filter consistently outperforms other color image filters by balancing the trade-off between noise suppression, detail preservation, and color retention.     

严重椒盐噪声污染图像的非线性滤波算法

针对灰度图像的椒盐噪声滤波问题，提出一种保细节的非线性滤波算法。利用局部统计信息，首先将图像像素点粗分为信号点、可能的正噪声点和可能的负噪声点3类，建立噪声标矩阵；然后再根据噪声标记矩阵的局部统计信息，将可能的噪声点细分为信号点、噪声点和不确定点3种类别，并分别采用不同的方法进行滤波，以保留更多的图像细节。结果表明，本文算法在去噪能力、自适应性以及保留细节等方面都明显比其它4种算法强，尤其是对于噪声高度污染图像的情况。     

A Fuzzy Switching Median Filter of Impulses in Digital Imagery (FSMF)

This paper proposed a fuzzy-based switching technique that aims at detection and filtering of impulse noises from digital images. Two types of noise models are used to obtain the noisy images. In this two-step process, the noise-free pixels are remained unchanged. The proposed detection algorithm uses 5 \(\times \) 5 window, based on all neighboring pixels on the center of the window of a noisy pixel. Two weighted median filters are devised, and a particular one is applied selectively to the noisy pixel based on the characteristics of the neighboring pixels within the window. Instead of a single threshold, two threshold values are used in the proposed fuzzy membership function to partition the noise level, and accordingly, a filtering method is applied to restore the corrupted pixel. Experimental results show that the proposed technique outperforms the existing impulse denoising methods in terms of peak signal-to-noise ratio and visual effects, with a comparable time complexity with the existing methods.