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A Study on Modified Median Filter for Impulse Noise Removal

임펄스 잡음 제거를 위한 변형된 메디안 필터에 관한 연구

  • 이경효 (부경대학교 전기제어공학부) ;
  • 김남호 (부경대학교 전기제어공학부)
  • Published : 2009.02.28
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Abstract

The image data compression, recognition, restoration, etc. are parts of the digital image processing technology. In the process by various devices, noises would be made. Because the noise could damage the image, we use the image filter to preserve the original image from the noise. The image filter used in digital image process basically has a two-dimensional structure. There an two methods of creating the filter - One is reiterating one dimension and the other is using an indivisible two-dimension image filter. The image filter is being widely used along with one-dimension filter according to each noise, and various median filters are being used to remove the impulse noise. In this paper, I suggested a powerful modified median filter, and compared with conventional filters for objective verification.

영상의 압축, 인식 그리고 복원 등은 디지털 영상처리 기술의 한 부분으로 영상을 처리하는 가운데 잡음이 발생된다. 발생되는 잡음은 원 영상을 훼손하게 되며, 이러한 잡음으로부터 원 영상을 보존하는 것이 이미지 필터의 사용목적이다. 영상에 사용되는 기본적인 필터는 2차원 필터의 구조를 갖는다. 구현하는 방법에는 1차원 필터를 반복하여 사용하는 방법과 비분리형 2차원 영상 필터를 사용하는 방법이 있고 마스크를 이용하는 공간 영역의 필터 처리법은 후자에 속한다. 이러한 이미지는 기존의 1차 필터와 같이 잡음에 따라 각기 달리 사용되며, 임펄스 잡음 제거하기 위하여서는 다양한 메디안 필터가 사용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 임펄스 잡음에 강한 변형된 메디안 필터를 제시하였으며, 향상된 성능을 확인하기 위해 기존의 제시된 필터와 비교하였다.

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