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Adjacent Pixels based Noise Mitigation Filter in Salt & Pepper Noise Environments

Salt & Pepper 잡음 환경에서 인접 픽셀 기반 잡음 완화 필터

  • Seong, Chi Hyuk (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Department of IT Convergence Engineering) ;
  • Shin, Soo Young (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Department of IT Convergence Engineering)
  • 성치혁 (국립금오공과대학교 IT융복합공학과) ;
  • 신수용 (국립금오공과대학교 IT융복합공학과)
  • Received : 2017.01.16
  • Accepted : 2017.05.31
  • Published : 2017.06.25
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Abstract

Digital images and videos are subject to various types of noise during storage and transmission. Among these noises, Salt & Pepper noise degrades the compression efficiency of the original data and causing deterioration of performance in edge detection or segmentation used in an image processing method. In order to mitigate this noise, there are many filters such as Median Filter, Weighted Median Filter, Center Weighted Median Filter, Switching Weighted Median Filter and Adaptive Median Filter. However these methods are inferior in performance at high noise density. In this paper we propose a new type of filter for noise mitigation in wireless communication environment where Salt & Pepper noise occurs. The proposed filter detects the location of the damaged pixel by Salt & Pepper noise detection and mitigates the noise by using adjacent pixel values which are not damaged in a certain area. Among the proposed filters, the performance of the filter using the $3{\times}3$ error mask is compared with that of the conventional methods and it is confirmed that when density of noise in the image is 95%, their performances are improved as 13.24 dB compared to MF and 13.09 dB compared to AMF.

디지털 이미지나 비디오는 저장, 전송을 하는 과정에서 여러 가지 종류의 잡음이 발생하게 된다. 이러한 잡음 중 Salt & Pepper 잡음은 원본 데이터를 훼손하여 압축 효율을 저하시키고 영상 처리 방법으로 이용하는 Edge Detection이나 Segmentation에서의 성능저하를 일으키는 요인이 된다. 이 잡음을 완화하기 위한 방법으로 Median Filter, Weighted Median Filter, Center Weighted Median Filter, Switching Weighted Median Filter, Adaptive Median Filter 등이 있다. 하지만 이러한 방법들은 높은 잡음의 밀도에서 성능이 다소 미흡하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 Salt & Pepper 잡음이 발생하는 무선 통신 환경에서 잡음 완화를 위한 새로운 형태의 필터를 제안한다. 제안한 필터는 Salt & Pepper 잡음 감지를 통해 훼손된 픽셀의 위치를 확인하고 일정 영역의 훼손되지 않은 인접 픽셀 값들을 이용하여 잡음을 완화한다. 제안하는 필터 중 $3{\times}3$ 크기의 에러 마스크를 이용하는 필터의 성능을 기존의 방법들과 비교하여 PSNR을 통해 평가하였을 때, 이미지에서 잡음의 밀도가 95%일 때, MF와 비교하여 13.24 dB, AMF와 비교하여 13.09 dB의 성능을 향상시키는 것을 확인하였다.

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