Research on the decision-based adaptive weighted mean filter algorithm for impulse noise removal

Research on the decision-based adaptive weighted mean filter algorithm for impulse noise removal

Wengang Zhou1, Fen Fu2

COMPUTER MODELLING & NEW TECHNOLOGIES 2013 17(5B) 46-49

1 School of computer science and technology, Zhou Kou Normal University, Henan, 466001, China
2 School of computer science and technology, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, ChongQing, 400065, China


The decision-based adaptive weighted mean filter is proposed to remove impulse noise from the highly corrupted image. The proposed filter first identifies the corrupted pixels using the soft decision-based noise detector and then removes the detected impulses using the adaptive weighted mean filter while keeping the uncorrupted pixels unaltered. Extensive simulations indicate that the proposed filter significantly outperforms a number of existing decision-based filters in that it can remove impulse noise from the corrupted image effectively while preserving the details in the image very well.