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Noise Removal using Canny Edge Detection in AWGN Environments

AWGN 환경에서 캐니 에지 검출을 이용한 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 : 2017.04.04
  • Accepted : 2017.04.18
  • Published : 2017.08.31

Abstract

Digital image processing is widely used in various fields including the military, medical, image recognition system, robot and commercial sectors. But in the process of acquiring and transmitting digital images, noise is generated by various external causes. There are various types of general noise depending on the cause and form, but AWGN and impulse noise is one of the leading methods. Removing noise during image processing is essential to the pre-treatment process such as segmentation, image recognition and characteristic extraction. As such, this paper suggests an algorithm that distinguishes the non-edge area and edge area using the Canny edge to apply different filters to different areas in order to effectively remove noise from the image. To verify the effectiveness of the suggested algorithm, it was compared against existing methods using zoom images, edge images and PSNR(peak signal to noise ratio).

디지털 영상 처리는 군사, 의료, 영상인식 시스템, 로봇, 산업 등의 여러 분야에서 다양하게 활용되고 있다. 그러나 디지털 영상은 영상을 획득, 전송하는 과정에서 여러 외부 원인에 의해 발생된다. 일반적으로 영상에 중첩되는 잡음에는 발생 원인과 형태에 따라 다양하며, AWGN 및 임펄스 잡음이 대표적이다. 영상처리에서 잡음 제거는 영상 분할, 영상 인식, 특징 추출 등의 전처리 과정에서 필수적이다. 따라서 본 논문은 영상에 첨가된 잡음을 효과적으로 제거하기 위해, 캐니 에지를 이용하여 비에지 영역과 에지 영역을 구분하여 각 영역에 따라 필터를 다르게 적용하여 처리하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 그리고 제안한 알고리즘의 우수성을 입증하기 위해, 확대 영상, 에지 영상 및 PSNR(peak signal to noise ratio)을 이용하여 기존의 방법들과 성능을 비교하였다.

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