scholarly journals A “Salt and Pepper” Noise Reduction Scheme for Digital Images Based on Support Vector Machines Classification and Regression

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Hilario Gómez-Moreno ◽  
Pedro Gil-Jiménez ◽  
Sergio Lafuente-Arroyo ◽  
Roberto López-Sastre ◽  
Saturnino Maldonado-Bascón

We present a new impulse noise removal technique based on Support Vector Machines (SVM). Both classification and regression were used to reduce the “salt and pepper” noise found in digital images. Classification enables identification of noisy pixels, while regression provides a means to determine reconstruction values. The training vectors necessary for the SVM were generated synthetically in order to maintain control over quality and complexity. A modified median filter based on a previous noise detection stage and a regression-based filter are presented and compared to other well-known state-of-the-art noise reduction algorithms. The results show that the filters proposed achieved good results, outperforming other state-of-the-art algorithms for low and medium noise ratios, and were comparable for very highly corrupted images.

Author(s):  
Nur Ariffin Mohd Zin ◽  
Hishammuddin Asmuni ◽  
Haza Nuzly Abdul Hamed ◽  
Razib M. Othman ◽  
Shahreen Kasim ◽  
...  

Recent studies have shown that the wearing of soft lens may lead to performance degradation with the increase of false reject rate. However, detecting the presence of soft lens is a non-trivial task as its texture that almost indiscernible. In this work, we proposed a classification method to identify the existence of soft lens in iris image. Our proposed method starts with segmenting the lens boundary on top of the sclera region. Then, the segmented boundary is used as features and extracted by local descriptors. These features are then trained and classified using Support Vector Machines. This method was tested on Notre Dame Cosmetic Contact Lens 2013 database. Experiment showed that the proposed method performed better than state of the art methods.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Nalindren Naicker ◽  
Timothy Adeliyi ◽  
Jeanette Wing

Educational Data Mining (EDM) is a rich research field in computer science. Tools and techniques in EDM are useful to predict student performance which gives practitioners useful insights to develop appropriate intervention strategies to improve pass rates and increase retention. The performance of the state-of-the-art machine learning classifiers is very much dependent on the task at hand. Investigating support vector machines has been used extensively in classification problems; however, the extant of literature shows a gap in the application of linear support vector machines as a predictor of student performance. The aim of this study was to compare the performance of linear support vector machines with the performance of the state-of-the-art classical machine learning algorithms in order to determine the algorithm that would improve prediction of student performance. In this quantitative study, an experimental research design was used. Experiments were set up using feature selection on a publicly available dataset of 1000 alpha-numeric student records. Linear support vector machines benchmarked with ten categorical machine learning algorithms showed superior performance in predicting student performance. The results of this research showed that features like race, gender, and lunch influence performance in mathematics whilst access to lunch was the primary factor which influences reading and writing performance.


The Analyst ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 135 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard G. Brereton ◽  
Gavin R. Lloyd

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 560
Author(s):  
Manuel González-Hidalgo ◽  
Sebastia Massanet ◽  
Arnau Mir ◽  
Daniel Ruiz-Aguilera

Many computer vision algorithms which are not robust to noise incorporate a noise removal stage in their workflow to avoid distortions in the final result. In the last decade, many filters for salt-and-pepper noise removal have been proposed. In this paper, a novel filter based on the weighted arithmetic mean aggregation function and the fuzzy mathematical morphology is proposed. The performance of the proposed filter is highly competitive when compared with other state-of-the-art filters regardless of the amount of salt-and-pepper noise present in the image, achieving notable results for any noise density from 5% to 98%. A statistical analysis based on some objective restoration measures supports that this filter surpasses several state-of-the-art filters for most of the noise levels considered in the comparison experiments.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document