In this paper we discuss an extensive comparative study of 38 different classical and fuzzy filters for noise reduction, both for impulse noise and gaussian noise. The goal of this study is twofold: (1) we want to select the filters that have a very good performance for a specific noise type of a specific strength; (2) we want to find out whether fuzzy filters offer an added value, i.e. whether...

Median filters excel at removing impulse noise from digital signals, with high accuracy and quick running-times. However, they have limitations if the resulting signals are to be used for feature recognition purposes, as they often remove crucial details and add unwanted noise. In this paper, an algorithm for digital filtering using the logical transform is proposed. This method is able to achi...

In this letter, a novel adaptive filter, the adaptive two-pass median (ATM) filter based on support vector machines (SVMs), is proposed to preserve more image details while effectively suppressing impulse noise for image restoration. The proposed filter is composed of a noise decision maker and two-pass median filters. Our new approach basically uses an SVM impulse detector to judge whether the...

It is universally accepted that Median filter is the best filter known so far. Based on this fact many variants of median filter were developed to improve the performance of the standard median filter. In this paper a new approach for the restoration of gray scale and color images that are highly corrupted by impulse noise is proposed. The algorithm works on low density noise also. The algorith...

Noise Filtering in audio signals has always been a challenge since the noise is spread across a large bandwidth and overlaps the spectral range of the audio signal being recovered. In audio systems all these can be kept below the audible level but ambient noise may not be avoided even if the audio system is designed according to the best practices. So, there have been several audio filtering te...

Reducing noise from the color images is a very active research scope in image processing. In this paper, a modified fuzzy based image filtering algorithm is proposed for reducing impulse noise. This paper presents a new fuzzy filter for the removal Impulse noise in color images. For dealing with the Impulse noise, an algorithm is developed to search for a set of uncorrupted pixels in the neighb...

This article gives an overview of impulse noise and its models, and points out some important and interesting facts about the study of impulse noise which are sometimes overlooked or not well understood. We discuss the different impulse noise models in the literature, focusing on their similarities and differences when applied in communications systems. The impulse noise models discussed are me...

This paper presents a robust blind channel equalization technique in impulse noise environments. To suppress impulse noise effectively, the combination of order statistics (OS) and adaptive thresholding is considered. We implement nonlinear adaptation with the OS operation based on the Sato error criterion. The adaptive threshold is calculated using the variance of the input signal. Computer si...

In this work, a novel nonlinear filter, called tri-state median (TSM) filter, is proposed for preserving image details while effectively suppressing impulse noise. We incorporate the standard median (SM) filter and the center weighted median (CWM) filter into a noise detection framework to determine whether a pixel is corrupted, before applying filtering unconditionally. Extensive simulation re...

In many applications, ultra-wide band (UWB) system experiences impulse noise due to surrounding physical noise sources. Therefore, a conventional receiver (correlator or matched filter) designed for additive Gaussian noise system is not optimum for an impulse noise affected communication channel. In this paper, we propose a new robust receiver design that utilizes the received UWB signal cluste...