Volterra Filtering Techniques for Removal of Gaussian and Mixed Gaussian-Impulse Noise

In this paper, we propose a new class of Volterra series based filters for image enhancement and restoration. Generally the linear filters reduce the noise and cause blurring at the edges. Some nonlinear filters based on median operator or rank operator deal with only impulse noise and fail to cancel the most common Gaussian distributed noise. A class of second order Volterra filters is proposed to optimize the trade-off between noise removal and edge preservation. In this paper, we consider both the Gaussian and mixed Gaussian-impulse noise to test the robustness of the filter. Image enhancement and restoration results using the proposed Volterra filter are found to be superior to those obtained with standard linear and nonlinear filters.

• M. B. Meenavathi
• K. Rajesh

• Gaussian noise
• Image enhancement
• Imagerestoration
• Linear filters
• Nonlinear filters
• Volterra series.

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