An Improved Adaptive Filtering Technique to Remove High Density Salt-and-Pepper Noise using Multiple Last Processed Pixels

Abstract

This paper presents an efficient algorithm which can remove high density salt-and-pepper noise from corrupted digital image This technique differentiates between corrupted and uncorrupted pixels and performs the filtering process only on the corrupted ones The proposed algorithm calculates median only among the noise-free neighborhoods in the processing window and replaces the centre corrupted pixel with that median value The adaptive behavior is enabled here by expanding the processing window based on neighbourhood noise-free pixels In case of high density noise corruption where no noise-free neighborhood is found within the maximum size of window this algorithm takes last processed pixels into the account While most of the existing filtering techniques use only one last processed pixel after reaching maximum window the proposed algorithm considers multiple last processed pixels rather than considering a single one so that more accurate decision can be taken in order to replace the corrupted pixel