With the advent of the inexpensive CCD (Charge-Coupled Device) on a chip, the wide-spread move from traditional 35mm film photography to digital photography is becoming increasingly apparent especially with journalists and professional photographers. This has prompted digital camera manufacturers to try to implement most of the legacy techniques common among traditional film cameras such as hig...

The median filter is a special case of nonlinear filter used for smoothing signals. Since the output of the median filter is always one of the input samples, it is conceivable that certain signals could pass through the median filter unaltered. These signals, invariant to further passes of the median filter, define the signature of a filter and are referred to as root signals. This represents t...

Novel matrix-valued imaging techniques such as diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging require the development of edgepreserving nonlinear filters. In this paper we introduce a median filter for such tensor-valued data. We show that it inherits a number of favourable properties from scalar-valued median filtering, and we present experiments on synthetic as well as on real-world images that ...

An Impulse noise detection & removal with adaptive filtering approach is proposed to restore images corrupted by salt & pepper noise. The proposed algorithm works well for suppressing impulse noise with noise density from 5 to 60% while preserving image details. The difference of current central pixel with median of local neighborhood pixels is used to classify the central pixel as noisy or noi...

The power of human computation is founded on the capabilities of humans to process qualitative information in a manner that is hard to reproduce with a computer. However, all machine learning algorithms rely on mathematical operations, such as sums, averages, least squares etc. that are less suitable for human computation. This paper is an effort to combine these two aspects of data processing....