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A Study on Cascade Filter Algorithm for Random Valued Impulse Noise Elimination

랜덤 임펄스 잡음제거를 위한 캐스케이드 필터 알고리즘에 관한 연구

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  • 김남호 (부경대학교 제어계측공학과)
  • Received : 2011.12.06
  • Accepted : 2011.12.19
  • Published : 2012.03.31
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Abstract

Image signal is corrupted by various noises in image processing, many studies are being accomplished to restore those images. In this paper, we proposed a cascade filter algorithm for removing random valued impulse noise. The algorithm consists two steps that noise detection and noise elimination. Variance of filtering mask and center pixel variance are calculated for noise detection, and the noise pixel is replaced by estimated value which first apply switching self adaptive weighted median filter and finally processed by modified weight filter. Considering the proposed algorithm only remove noise and preserve the uncorrupted information that the algorithm can not only remove noise well but also preserve edge.

영상신호는 신호를 처리하는 과정에서 다양한 잡음에 의해 훼손되어지며, 이러한 신호를 복원하기 위한 많은 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 랜덤 임펄스 잡음을 제거하기 위한 캐스케이드 필터 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 알고리즘은 잡음검출과 잡음제거 등 두 과정으로 구성되었으며, 잡음검출을 위하여 마스크의 분산과 중앙화소에 의한 분산을 이용하였다. 또한, 잡음신호에 대해서 스위칭 self adaptive weighted median 필터로 처리한 후, 변형된 가중치 알고리즘을 적용하여 제거하였다. 제안한 알고리즘은 잡음신호만을 제거하고 비잡음신호는 그대로 보존하여, 우수한 에지 보존특성 및 잡음제거 능력을 나타내었다.

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