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Salt and Pepper Noise Removal using Linear Interpolation and Spatial Weight value

선형 보간법 및 공간 가중치를 이용한 Salt and Pepper 잡음 제거

  • Kwon, Se-Ik (Dept. of Control and Instrumentation Eng., Pukyong National University) ;
  • Kim, Nam-Ho (Dept. of Control and Instrumentation Eng., Pukyong National University)
  • Received : 2016.03.09
  • Accepted : 2016.03.24
  • Published : 2016.07.31
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Abstract

Although image signal processing is used in many fields, degradation takes place in the process of transmitting image data by several causes. CWMF, A-TMF, and AWMF are the typical methods to eliminate noises from image data damaged under salt and pepper noise environment. However, those filters are not effective for noise rejection under highly dense noise environment. In this respect, the present study proposed an algorithm to remove in salt and pepper noise. In case the center pixel is determined to be non-noise, it is replaced with original pixel. In case the center pixel is noise, it segments local mask into 4 directions and uses linear interpolation to estimate original pixel. And then it applies spatial weight to the estimated pixel. The proposed algorithm shows a high PSNR of 24.56[dB] for House images that had been damaged of salt and pepper noise(P = 50%), compared to the existing CWMF, A-TMF and AWMF there were improvements by 16.46[dB], 12.28[dB], and 12.32[dB], respectively.

영상 신호처리는 다양한 분야에서 활용되고 있으며, 영상 데이터는 전송 과정에서 여러 가지 원인으로 열화가 발생된다. 일반적으로 salt and pepper 잡음 환경에 의해 훼손된 영상의 잡음을 제거하는 대표적인 방법에는 CWMF, A-TMF, AWMF 등이 있으며 이 필터들은 고밀도 잡음 환경에서 잡음제거 특성이 다소 부족하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 중심화소가 비잡음인 경우 원 화소로 대치하고, 잡음인 경우 국부 마스크를 네 방향으로 세분화하여 선형 보간법을 이용하여 원 화소를 추정하고 추정된 화소에 공간 가중치를 적용하여 처리하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안한 알고리즘은 salt and pepper 잡음(P = 50%)에 훼손된 House 영상에서 26.86[dB]의 높은 PSNR을 보이고 있고, 기존의 CWMF, A-TMF, AWMF에 비해 각각 16.46[dB], 12.28[dB], 12.32[dB] 개선되었다.

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