Donald G. Bailey Physics Department, Massey University Palmerston North, New Zealand D.G.Bailey @ massey . ac.nz Filtering is often used in image processing to smooth noise, and to enhance or detect features within an image. Images which have regular patterns in the spatial domain have peaks in the frequency domain corresponding to the spatial frequencies of the regular patterns. When processin...

Noise removing belongs to image restoration in digital image processing. It’s the essential guarantee of identifying image information and the reliable guarantee of making further image processing. A satisfying result can’t be found if processing method such as feature extraction, registration or image fusion is carried out on an image with noise. So removing noise is absolutely necessary for i...

The main purpose of this paper was to introduce an efficient algorithm for fault identification in fruits images. First, input image was de-noised using the combination of Block Matching and 3D filtering (BM3D) and Principle Component Analysis (PCA) model. Afterward, in order to reduce the size of images and increase the execution speed, refined Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) algorithm was uti...

MRI data analysis is routinely done on the magnitude part of complex images. While both real and imaginary image channels contain Gaussian noise, magnitude MRI data are characterized by Rice distribution. However, conventional filtering methods often assume image noise to be zero mean and Gaussian distributed. Estimation of an underlying image using magnitude data produces biased result. The bi...

Periodic noises are unwished and spurious signals that create repetitive pattern on images and decreased the visual quality. Firstly, this paper investigates various methods for reducing the effects of the periodic noise in digital images. Then an adaptive optimum notch filter is proposed. In the proposed method, the regions of noise frequencies are determined by analyzing the spectral of noisy...

This paper deals with the joint use of connected operators and image inpainting for image filtering. Connected operators filter the image by merging its flat zones while preserving contour information. Image inpainting restores the values of an image for a destroyed or consciously masked subregion of the image domain. In the present paper, it will be shown that image inpainting can be combined ...

This paper presents fast and effective filtering techniques for image enhancement from remote sensing Indian remote sensing satellite P6 Liss IV remotely sensed data like Near-Infrared band. There are four filtering techniques used for image enhancement based on spatial domain filters and frequency domain filters such as median filter, wiener filter, bilateral filter and Gaussian homomorphic fi...

Image filtering, which removes or reduces noise from contaminated images, is an important task in image processing. This study deals with evolutionary design of image filters that can be implemented on evolvable hardware platforms using fuzzy noise models. Two fuzzy sets, similarity and divergence, are defined for classifying noise. Three filtering modules for pixels with various degrees of noi...

Model-based image reconstruction techniques yield better quantitative accuracy in photoacoustic image reconstruction. In this work, an exponential filtering of singular values was proposed for carrying out the image reconstruction in photoacoustic tomography. The results were compared with widely popular Tikhonov regularization, time reversal, and the state of the art least-squares QR-based rec...

Currently, new applications demand utilizing CT scout images for diagnostic purposes. However, many CT scout images cannot be used diagnostically due to their poor resolution, particularly in the direction of table movement. Spatial resolution generally can be improved with image restoration techniques. Based on the principles of Wiener filtering and inverse filtering, this paper presents a mod...