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Modified Sigma Filter by Image Decomposition Using Directivity.  

Gu, Mi-Ran (동아대학교 전자공학과)
Han, Hag-Yong (동아대학교 전자공학과)
Choi, Won-Tae ((주)삼성전기 중앙연구소)
Kang, Bong-Soon (동아대학교 전자공학과)
Kang, Dae-Seong (동아대학교 전자공학과)
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Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing / v.11, no.2, 2010 , pp. 151-156 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper is a study on image noise reduction of modified sigma filter by image decomposition using directivity. Conventional sigma filter has been shown to be a good solution both in terms of filtering accuracy and computational complexity. However, the sigma filter does not preserve well small edges especially for high level of additive noise. In this paper, we propose here a new method using a modified sigma filter. In our proposed method the input image is first decomposed in two components that have features of horizontal, vertical and diagonal direction. Then, two components are applied HPF and LPF. By applying a conventional sigma filter separately on each of them, the output image is reconstructed from the filtered components. Added noise is removed and our proposed method preserves the edges from the image. Comparative results from experiments show that the proposed algorithm achieves higher gains, on average, 2.6 dB PSNR than the sigma filter and 0.5 dB PSNR than the modified sigma filter. When relatively high levels of noise added, the proposed algorithm shows better performance than two conventional filters.
Keywords
Image de-noising; Noise Reduction; Sigma Filter; Noise Estimation; Directivity;
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