Abstract
This paper proposes a two-stage iterative method for removing random-valued impulse noise. In the first phase, we use the adaptive center-weighted median filter to identify pixels which are likely to be corrupted by noise (noise candidates). In the second phase, these noise candidates are restored using a detail-preserving regularization method which allows edges and noise-free pixels to be preserved. These two phases are applied alternatively. Simulation results indicate that the proposed method is significantly better than those using just nonlinear filters or regularization only.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 921-924 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | IEEE Signal Processing Letters |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 2004 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
Manuscript received December 12, 2003; revised April 28, 2004. This work was supported by HKRGC Grant CUHK4243/01P and CUHK DAG 2060220. The associate editor coordinating the review of this manuscript and approving it for publication was Dr. Steven L. Grant.
Keywords
- Adaptive center-weighted median filter
- Impulse noise
- Regularization methods