A Novel Fuzzy Technique for Image Noise Reduction

A new fuzzy filter is presented for noise reduction of images corrupted with additive noise. The filter consists of two stages. In the first stage, all the pixels of image are processed for determining noisy pixels. For this, a fuzzy rule based system associates a degree to each pixel. The degree of a pixel is a real number in the range [0,1], which denotes a probability that the pixel is not considered as a noisy pixel. In the second stage, another fuzzy rule based system is employed. It uses the output of the previous fuzzy system to perform fuzzy smoothing by weighting the contributions of neighboring pixel values. Experimental results are obtained to show the feasibility of the proposed filter. These results are also compared to other filters by numerical measure and visual inspection.

Authors:

• Hamed Vahdat Nejad
• Hameed Reza Pourreza
• Hasan Ebrahimi

Keywords:

• Additive noise
• Fuzzy logic
• Image processing
• Noise reduction.

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