Efficient Removal of Impulse Noise in Digital Images

Image Noise Suppression is a highly demanded approach in digital imaging systems. Impulsive noise is one such noise, which is frequently encountered problem in acquisition, transmission and processing of images. In the area of image restoration, many state-of-the art filters consist of two main processes, classification (detection) and reconstruction (filtering). Classification is used to separate uncorrupted pixels from corrupted pixels. Reconstruction involves replacing the corrupted pixels by certain approximation technique. In this paper such schemes of impulsive noise detection and filtering thereof are proposed. Here we presents a comparative study on six methods such as median filter, Progressive switching median filter, Fuzzy switching median filter, Adaptive median filter, Simple adaptive median filter and its modified version i.e. Modified Simple Adaptive median filter. Objective evaluation parameters i.e. mean square error; peak signal-to- noise ratio is calculated to quantify the performance of these filters.