• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.591-596
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• 2011

Image denoising is a key issue in all image processing researches. Generally, the quality of an image could be corrupted by a lot of noise due to the undesired conditions of image acquisition phase or during the transmission. Many approaches to image restoration are aimed at removing either Gaussian or impulse noise. Nevertheless, it is possible to find them operating on the same image, which is called mixed noise and it produces a hard damage. In this paper, we proposed noise type classification method and a mixed nonlinear filter for mixed noise suppression. The proposed filtering scheme applies a modified adaptive switching median filter to impulse noise suppression and an efficient nonlinear filer was carried out to remove Gaussian noise. The simulation results based on Matlab show that the proposed method can remove mixed Gaussian and impulse noise efficiently and it can preserve the integrity of edge and keep the detailed information.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.131-136
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• 2017

Chest X-ray image cannot be focused in the same manner as optical lenses and the resultant image generally tends to be slightly blurred. Therefore, appropriate methods to improve the quality of chest X-ray image have been studied in this paper. As the frequency domain filters work well for slight blurring and moderate levels of additive noises, we propose an algorithm that is particularly suitable for enhancing chest image. First, the chest image using Gaussian high pass filter and the optimal high frequency emphasis filter shows improvements in the edges and contrast of the flat areas. Second, as compared to using histogram equalization where each pixel of chest image is characterized by a loss of detail and much noises, in using fuzzy logic, each pixel of chest image shows the detail preservation and little noise.

• 통합자연과학논문집
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.141-144
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• 2015

As the visual quality of X-ray images is a critical reference for the accuracy of the clinical diagnosis, the methods to improve the quality of X-ray images have been investigated. Among many existing methods, using frequency domain filter is a very powerful method to improve the visual quality of images. In this paper, the inherent noises of the input images are suppressed by adding the Laplacian image to the subjected image. The medical X-ray images using the optimal high pass filter has shown improved edges. Further, the optimal high frequency emphasis filter has shown the improved contrast of flat areas by using the result image from the optimal high pass filter. Also the resulting images of the global contrast have improved by the histogram equalization. As a result, the proposed methods have shown enhanced contrast and edges of the images with noise canceling effect.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2014년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.804-806
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• 2014

영상의 처리 및 전송과정에서 여러가지 잡음이 첨가되어 영상에 오류를 발생시킨다. 이러한 영상을 복원하기 위해, 알파 트림드 평균 필터, 표준 메디안 필터, 스위칭 메디안 필터 등의 방법들이 제안되었으나 이러한 기존의 방법들은 잡음제거 특성이 미흡하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 영상에 첨가되는 임펄스 잡음을 제거하기 위해 마스크 내의 화소의 잡음 밀도에 따라 마스크를 확대 시키는 변형된 적응 메디안 필터 알고리즘을 제안하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권8호
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• pp.2928-2947
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• 2015

Adaptive Gaussian filter (AGF) is a recently developed switching filter to remove salt and pepper noise. AGF first directly identifies pixels of gray levels 0 and 255 as noise pixels, and then only restored noise pixels using a Gaussian filter with adaptive variance based on the estimated noise density. AGF usually achieves better denoising effect in comparison with other filters. However, AGF still fails to obtain good denoising effect on images with noise-free pixels of gray levels 0 and 255, due to its severe false alarm in its noise detection stage. To alleviate this issue, a modified version of AGF is proposed in this paper. Specifically, the proposed filter first performs noise detection via an image block based noise density estimation and sequential noise density guided rectification on the noise detection result of AGF. Then, a modified Gaussian filter with adaptive variance and window size is used to restore the detected noise pixels. The proposed filter has been extensively evaluated on two representative grayscale images and the Berkeley image dataset BSDS300 with 300 images. Experimental results showed that the proposed filter achieved better denoising effect over the state-of-the-art filters, especially on images with noise-free pixels of gray levels 0 and 255.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 1996년도 학술대회
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• pp.223-227
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• 1996

In this paper we propose an adaptive fast image restoration filter, which is suitable for reducing the blocking artifacts in the compressed image in real-time. The proposed restoration filter is based on the observation that quantization operation in a series of coding process is a nonlinear and many-to-one mapping operator. And then we propose an approximated version of constrained optimization technique as a restoration process for removing the nonlinear and space varying degradation operator. We also propose a novel block classification method for adaptively choosing the direction of a highpass filter, which serves as a constraint in the optimization process. The proposed classification method adopts the bias-corrected maximized likelihood, which is used to determine the number of regions in the image for the unsupervised segmentation. The proposed restoration filter can be realized either in the discrete Fourier transform domain or in the spatial domain in the form of a truncated finite impulse response (FIR) filter structure for real-time processing. In order to demonstrate the validity of the proposed restoration filter experimental results will be shown.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2008년도 춘계종합학술대회 A
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• pp.165-168
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• 2008

현대 사회는 정보통신 기술의 발달로 멀티미디어 관련 정보의 발전이 가속화되고 있다. 디지털 영상처리 기술은 영상의 압축, 인식 그리고 복원 등 많은 부분의 연구가 진행되고 있다. 영상의 전송 및 저장하는 가운데 노이즈가 발생되는데, 이때 발생되는 노이즈를 줄이는 것이 이미지 필터의 사용목적이라 하겠다. 디지털 이미지 처리에 사용되는 영상 필터는 기본적으로 2차원 필터의 구조를 갖는다. 이를 구현하는 방법에는 1차원 필터를 반복하여 사용하는 방법과 비분리형 2차원 영상 필터를 사용하는 방법이 있고 마스크를 이용하는 공간 영역의 필터 처리법은 후자에 속한다. 마스크 이용법은 입력 영상위에 2차원 필터 계수를 두어 서로 마주하는 화소끼리 곱하여 얻은 값을 이용하여 필터 계수 중앙에 해당하는 위치와 동일한 영상의 위치에 삽입하여 사용한다. 사용된 이미지 필터 역시 다른 1차 필터와 같이 처리하려는 노이즈에 따라 각기 달리 사용되며, 임펄스 노이즈를 제거하기 위하여서는 다양한 미디언 필터가 사용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 임펄스 잡음에 강한 선택적 미디언 필터를 제시하고 있으며, 이를 확인하기 위해 기존의 제시된 필터와 비교하였다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.25-32
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• 1992

A new restoration method of chest X -ray image (dual project filter) was proposed to improve SNR(signal to noise ratio) characteristics. In this method, a priori Information of system and anatomical structure and statistics of projected object are used in the design of filter. Dual projection filter varies its parameters, adapting to the local regions of chest(lung region, mediasternum, subdiaphragm) and the structure of chest (bone, tissue, blood vessel, bronchia). The performance of Dual Projection Filter was 0.1-0.2dB better than Dual Sensor Wiener Filter, which was used for initial estimate of Dual Porjection Filter.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.1141-1154
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• 1996

The para-unitary (PU) M band filter bank, which can beused for M band decomposition, has many useful properties. In this ppaer, attempts have been made to design and and analyze the linear phase para-unitary (LPPU) M band filter bank, which is appropriate to the image coding application. First, we derive a unified coding gain in terms of the correlation in the band, as well as the energy compaction. And M band filter bank has been designed, maximizing the new coding gain. Then, we analyze the image coding performance of the LPPU M band filter bank, such as the energy compaction, the correlation in the band and the entropy. From the analysis, it is shown that the coding gain for LPPU M band filter bank improves, and the coding gain for the LPPU 4 band filter bank approaches very closely to that for LPPU 8 band filter bank, as the length of the filter increases. This fact is also verified by the coding results on the real images.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.611-617
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• 2004

Pixel classification is one of basic image processing issues. The general characteristics of the pixels belonging to various classes are discussed and the radical principles of pixel classification are given. At the same time. a pixel classification scheme based on image direction measure is proposed. As a typical application instance of pixel classification, an adaptive multi-level median filter is presented. An image can be classified into two types of areas by using the direction information measure, that is. smooth area and edge area. Single direction multi-level median filter is used in smooth area. and multi-direction multi-level median filter is taken in the other type of area. What's more. an adaptive mechanism is proposed to adjust the type of the filters and the size of filter window. As a result. we get a better trade-off between preserving details and noise filtering.