Impulse noise removal from digital images by a detail-preserving filter based on type-2 fuzzy logic

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 920-928

  Yildirim, M Tulin ^a   Baştürk, Alper ^a   Yuksel, M Emin ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Image restoration; Noise filtering; Type 2 fuzzy logic

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; FUZZY SETS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMPULSE NOISE;

FILTER BASED; IMAGE RESTORATION; NOISE FILTERING; TYPE-2 FUZZY LOGIC;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 50549089480     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2008.924358     Document Type: Article

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