Median filter is well known for removing impulsive noise and preserving edges. Repeatedly filtering of any one-dimensional signal with a median filter will produce a root signal. Any impulses in the input signal will be removed by sufficient number of passes of median filter, where any root like features in the input signal will be preserved. A signal of finite length will be filtered to a root...

Images are often corrupted by impulse noise due to a noisy sensor or channel transmission errors. The goal of impulse noise removal is to suppress the noise by preserving the integrity of edges and detail information. In this paper, a new filter called Switching Weighted Adaptive Median (SWAM) filter is proposed for effective suppression of impulse noise which is used to incorporate the Recursi...

Two-dimensional (TD) adaptive filtering is a technique that can be applied to many image, and signal processing applications. This paper extends the one-dimensional adaptive filter algorithms to TD structures and the novel TD adaptive filters are established. Based on this extension, the TD variable step-size normalized least mean squares (TD-VSS-NLMS), the TD-VSS affine projection algorithms (...

In this paper, we propose a method to detect, extract and to remove the glasses from a face image. The aim is to achieve a face recognition system robust to glasses presence. The extraction is realised using Bayes rules that incorporate the features around each pixel, and the prior knowledge on glasses features that were learnt and stored in a database. Glasses removal is achieved with an adapt...

The detection of hydrophobicity is an important way to evaluate the performance of composite insulators, which is helpful to the safe operation of composite insulators. Image processing technology is used to judge the hydrophobicity of composite insulators, which makes detection results more accurate and overcomes the subjective drawbacks of traditional detection methods. As the traditional Can...

INSAR(Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) has been studied and used widely in the field of generating high accuracy DEM(Digital Elevation Model). The processing of INSAR includes many key technologies, such as image matching, phase unwrapping, baseline estimation, etc. The phase unwrapping is difficult, but it can be made easy and simple by an excellent interferogram filtering, as is ofte...

Weighted median smoothers, which were introduced by Edgemore in the context of least absolute regression over 100 years ago, have received considerable attention in signal processing during the past two decades. Although weighted median smoothers offer advantages over traditional linear finite impulse response (FIR) filters, it is shown in this paper that they lack the flexibility to adequately...

-The gray level distribution around a pixel of an image usually tends to be more coherent in some directions compared to other directions. The idea of adaptive directional filtering is to estimate the direction of higher coherence around each pixel location and then to employ a window which approximates a line segment in that direction. Hence, the details of the image may be preserved while mai...

Speckle appears in all conventional medical B-mode ultrasonic images and can be an undesirable property since it may mask small but diagnostically significant features. In this paper, an adaptive filtering algorithm is proposed for speckle reduction. It selects a filtering region size using an appropriately estimated homogeneity value for region growth. Homogeneous regions are processed with an...

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