An Improved Switching Median filter for Uniformly Distributed Impulse Noise Removal

The performance of an image filtering system depends on its ability to detect the presence of noisy pixels in the image. Most of the impulse detection schemes assume the presence of salt and pepper noise in the images and do not work satisfactorily in case of uniformly distributed impulse noise. In this paper, a new algorithm is presented to improve the performance of switching median filter in detection of uniformly distributed impulse noise. The performance of the proposed scheme is demonstrated by the results obtained from computer simulations on various images.

Authors:

• Rajoo Pandey

Keywords:

• Switching median filter
• Impulse noise
• Imagefiltering
• Impulse detection.

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