Application of type-2 fuzzy logic filtering to reduce noise in color images

IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 25-35

  Yüksel, Mehmet Emin ^a   Baştürk, Alper ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGES; DISTORTION EFFECTS; FILTERING PERFORMANCE; FIRST ORDER; FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEMS; FUZZY MEMBERSHIP FUNCTION; IMPULSE DETECTOR; IMPULSE NOISE FILTERS; INTERNAL PARAMETERS; NOISE CONDITIONS; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; SUGENO TYPE; TEST IMAGES; TYPE-2 FUZZY LOGIC;

FUZZY LOGIC; IMAGE PROCESSING;

IMPULSE NOISE;

EID: 84864265699     PISSN: 1556603X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCI.2012.2200624     Document Type: Article

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