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Progressive Filter for Impulse Noise Reduction

임펄스 잡음제거를 위한 프로그레시브 필터

  • Received : 2011.10.04
  • Accepted : 2012.03.08
  • Published : 2012.03.25
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a progressive filter for impulse noise reduction. The proposed method uses non-linear filter and linear filter progressively. Non-linear filter reduces abrupt noise pattern. Also, linear filter adjusts filtering direction according to an edge in the image which is filtered by non-linear filter. Thus, our proposed method not only preserves edge, but also reduces noise in uniform region. Experimental results show that our proposed method has better quality than those by existing non-linear and linear progressive filtering methods.

본 논문에서는 임펄스 잡음을 제거하는 프로그레시브 필터를 제안한다. 비선형 필터와 선형필터를 순차적으로 적용하는 방법을 제안한다. 비선형 필터는 급격한 잡음 패턴을 제거한다. 이에 따른 비선형필터링 된 영상을 선형 필터에서 에지에 따라 방향을 조절하여 필터링한다. 따라서 제안하는 방법은 에지를 유지할 뿐 아니라 일정한 지역에서 잡음을 효과적으로 제거한다. 실험결과, 제안하는 방법이 기존 선형, 비선형 프로그레시브 필터링 방법들 보다 향상된 결과를 보인다.

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