scholarly journals Image Recovery with Data Missing in the Presence of Salt-and-Pepper Noise

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 1426
Author(s):  
Hongqing Liu ◽  
Liming Hou ◽  
Zhen Luo ◽  
Yi Zhou ◽  
Xiaorong Jing ◽  
...  

In this paper, an image recovery problem under the case of salt-and-pepper noise and data missing that degrade image quality is addressed if they are not effectively handled, where the salt-and-pepper noise as the impulsive noise is remodeled as a sparse signal due to its impulsiveness and the data missing pattern, denoted by a sparse vector, contains only zeros and ones to formulate the data missing. In particular, the salt-and-pepper noise and data missing are reformatted by their sparsity, respectively. The wavelet and framelet domains are explored to sparsely represent the image in order to accurately reconstruct the clean image. From the reformulations conducted and to recover the image, under one optimization framework, a joint estimation is developed to perform the image recovery, the salt-and-pepper noise suppression, and the missing patter estimation. To solve the optimization problem, two efficient solvers are developed to obtain the joint estimation solution, and they are based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) and accelerated proximal gradient (APG). Finally, numerical studies verify that the joint estimation algorithm outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches in terms of both objective and subjective evaluation standards.

Author(s):  
Hongyao Deng ◽  
Xiuli Song ◽  
Huilian Fan

Salt-and-pepper noise suppression for vector-valued images usually employs vector median filtering, total variation L1 model, diffusion methods and variants. These approaches, however, often introduce excessive smoothing and can result in extensive visual feature blurring and are suitable only for images with low intensity noise. In this paper, a new method, as an important preprocessing step in cyber-physical systems, is presented to suppress salt-and-pepper noise that can overcomes this limitation. This method first detects the corrupted pixels and then restores them using channel-wise anisotropic diffusion. The means is twofold. On the one hand, the marginal approach is used to perform noise suppression separately in each channel because the contaminative pixel components are of independent distribution. On the other hand, a decision-based anisotropic diffusion method is applied to each channel to restores them. The anisotropic diffusion is an energy-dissipating process with time, and dependent on geometric analysis of shape of the energy surface. Simulation results indicate that the proposed method for impulsive noise removal achieves the state-of-the-arts results.


2014 ◽  
Vol 590 ◽  
pp. 814-818
Author(s):  
Roger Campello de Magalhães ◽  
Silvia Cristina Martini Rodrigues ◽  
Márcia Aparecida Bissaco da Silva ◽  
Luiz Teruo Kawamoto ◽  
Alessandro Pereira da Silva

The use of mammography as a method for the early detection of breast cancer reduces mortality from it. To aid in the diagnosis there are several free image processing software with the purpose of extracting characteristics such as microcalcification, nodules or edges of important structures. The objective of this study is to indicate which filters are best to aid in the processing of the images in three of these free software. The free software ImageJ, ImageTool and Mipav were used for the processing of 60 mammographic images from the Mini-MIAS database focusing the mean, median and Gaussian filters. The Haralick descriptors (second angular moment, contrast, entropy and correlation) and difference of values of gray levels (standard deviation, mean, minimum and maximum) were extracted from the resulting images. Then the results were compared taking into consideration the purpose of the processing. It was observed that it's best to use the mean and median filters from the Mipav software if the purpose of the processing is to leave the images with higher contrast levels. However, if the purpose is to obtain higher entropy levels, the ImageTool software should be used. It was also observed a similar processing time among the three software. The filter choice will depend on the type of noise to be removed from the image. For "Salt and Pepper" noise the mean filter should be used, while for the impulsive noise, the median one should be used. The results allowed the conclusion that the choice of the software to perform the processing of the mammographic images depends on the purpose of the processing application, if it's to increase the contrast in the image or if it's to extract other characteristics of diagnostic interest.


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.


Author(s):  
Vorapoj Patanavijit ◽  
Kornkamol Thakulsukanant

<p>In the past two decades, the SPN (salt and pepper noise) suppressing method is worldwide interested researches on computer vision and image processing hence many SPN suppressing methods have been proposed. In general, the primary goal of SPN removal method is the suppressing of SPN in digital images thereby one of the recent effective and powerful SPN suppressing methods is a new switching-based median filtering (NSMF), which is innovated for suppressing high density SPN. Consequently, this paper thoroughly examines its efficiency and constrain of a new switching-based median filtering when this filter is used for contaminated image, which is synthesized by SPN and RVIN (random-value impulsive noise). In these simulations, six well-known images (Lena, Mobile, Pepper, Pentagon, Girl, Resolution) with two impulsive noise classes (SPN and RVIN) are used for measuring the its efficiency and constrain. An evaluation of the efficiency is conducted with many previous methods in forms of subjective and objective indicators.</p>


2014 ◽  
Vol 701-702 ◽  
pp. 352-356
Author(s):  
Xiong Liang Wang ◽  
Chun Ling Wang

A new method based on image patch reordering for removing salt-and-pepper noise from corrupted images is presented. Firstly, the problem of salt-and-pepper noise removal can be turned into the problem of image in-painting. Then, we can use the image patch reordering method to recover the missing pixels and fulfill the salt-and-pepper noise removal. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method obtain much better performance in terms of both qualitative and quantitative assessment. Especially, the proposed method provides the improvement in the performance of noise suppression and detail preservation.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marisol Mares-Javier ◽  
Carlos Guillén-Galván ◽  
Rafael Lemuz-López ◽  
Johan Debayle

Mathematical Morphology (MM) is a tool that can be applied to many digital image processing tasks that include the reduction of impulsive or salt and pepper noise in grayscale images. The morphological filters used for this task are filters resulting from two basic operators: erosion and dilation. However, when the level of contamination of the image is higher, these filters tend to distort the image. In this work we propose a pair of operators with properties, that better adapt to impulsive noise than other classical morphological filters, it is demonstrated to be increasing idempotent morphological filters. Furthermore, the proposed pair turns out to be a Ʌ-filter and a V-filter which allow to build morphological openings and closings. Finally, they are compared with other filters of the state-of-the-art such as: SMF, PMSF, DBAIN, AMF and NAFSM, and have shown a better performance when the noise level is above 50%.


Author(s):  
CHAITANYA BETHINA ◽  
M. PREMKUMAR

A modified decision based unsymmetrical trimmed median filter algorithm for the restoration of gray scale, and color images that are highly corrupted by salt and pepper noise is proposed in this paper. Images are often corrupted by impulse noise during acquisition and transmission; thus, an efficient noise suppression technique is required before subsequent image processing operations. Median filter (MF) is widely used in noise removal methods due to its denoising capability and computational efficiency. However, it is effective only for low noise densities. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that our method can obtain better performances in terms of both subjective and objective evaluations than denoising techniques. Especially, the proposed method can preserve edges very well while removing salt and pepper noise. Modified Decision Based Algorithm (MDBA), and Progressive Switched Median Filter (PSMF) shows better results at low and medium noise densities. At high noise densities, their performance is poor. A new algorithm to remove high-density salt and pepper noise using modified Decision Based Unsymmetric Trimmed Median Filter (DBUTMF) is proposed. The proposed algorithm replaces the noisy pixel by trimmed median. Since our algorithm is algorithmically simple, it is very suitable to be applied to many real-time applications and higher noise densities. When all the pixel values are 0’s and 255’s then the noise pixel is replaced by mean value of all the elements present in the selected window. The proposed algorithm is tested against different grayscale and color images and it gives better Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Image Enhancement Factor (IEF).


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