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Impulse Noise Detection Using Self-Organizing Neural Network and Its Application to Selective Median Filtering  

Lee Chong Ho (인하대 공대 정보통신공학부)
Dong Sung Soo (용인송담대 디지털전자정보과)
Wee Jae Woo (인하대 공대 전기공학과)
Song Seung Min (인하대 공대 정보통신공학과)
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The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D / v.54, no.3, 2005 , pp. 166-173 More about this Journal
Abstract
Preserving image features, edges and details in the process of impulsive noise filtering is an important problem. To avoid image blurring, only corrupted pixels must be filtered. In this paper, we propose an effective impulse noise detection method using Self-Organizing Neural Network(SONN) which applies median filter selectively for removing random-valued impulse noises while preserving image features, edges and details. Using a $3\times3$ window, we obtain useful local features with which impulse noise patterns are classified. SONN is trained with sample image patterns and each pixel pattern is classified by its local information in the image. The results of the experiments with various images which are the noise range of $5-15\%$ show that our method performs better than other methods which use multiple threshold values for impulse noise detection.
Keywords
Median Filter; Impulse Noise Detection; Pattern Classification; Self-Organizing Neural Network(SONN);
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