Fast and efficient median filter for removing 1-99% levels of salt-and-pepper noise in images

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1333-1338

  Hsieh, Mu Hsien ^a   Cheng, Fan Chieh ^a   Shie, Mon Chau ^a   Ruan, Shanq Jang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Corrupted image; Image restoration; Median filter; Noise detection; Salt and pepper

Indexed keywords

CORRUPTED IMAGES; EXECUTION SPEED; NOISE DETECTION; PRIOR INFORMATION; REALTIME PROCESSING; SALT-AND-PEPPER; SALT-AND-PEPPER IMPULSE NOISE; SALT-AND-PEPPER NOISE;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMPULSE NOISE; ITERATIVE METHODS; PIXELS; RESTORATION;

MEDIAN FILTERS;

EID: 84875225191     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2012.10.012     Document Type: Article

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