Fuzzy random impulse noise reduction method

A new two-step fuzzy filter that adopts a fuzzy logic approach for the enhancement of images corrupted with impulse noise is presented in this paper. The filtering method (entitled as Fuzzy Random Impulse Noise Reduction method (FRINR)) consists of a fuzzy detection mechanism and a fuzzy filtering method to remove (random-valued) impulse noise from corrupted images. Based on the criteria of peak-signal-to-noise-ratio (PSNR) and subjective evaluations we have found experimentally, that the proposed method provides a significant improvement on other state-of-the-art methods.

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