Decision-based adaptive morphological filter for fixed-value impulse noise removal

Abstract A novel adaptive switching morphological filter for removing fixed-value impulse noise is proposed. The proposed filter firstly identifies noise pixels using the two-stage morphological noise detector, in which the initial noise detection is used to identify the noise candidates based on the morphological gradients and the refined noise detection based on the combined conditional morphological operators is adopted to further classify the noise candidates as the noise pixels or noise-free pixels. Then the detected noise pixels are removed by the adaptive morphological filter using the conditional rank-order morphological operators while the noise-free pixels are left unaltered. Extensive simulations show that the proposed filter outperforms a number of existing switching-based filters because of its excellent performance in terms of noise detection and image restoration.

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