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This paper describes a new technique for the design of Adaptive Median Filtering Technique, aimed at removing the impulse noise (salt and pepper noise) from the image and reducing distortion in the image. The filter is designed to reconfigure itself and provide real-time noise reduction. This paper investigates a high-speed non-linear Adaptive median filter implementation. Then Adaptive Median Filter serves the dual purpose of removing the impulse noise from the image and reducing distortion in the image. Adaptive Median Filtering can achieve the filtering operation of an image corrupted with impulse noise up to 70%.

This paper proposes a novel adaptive filtering scheme to remove impulse noise from images. The scheme replaces the corrupted test pixel with the median value of non-corrupted neighboring pixels selected from a window dynamically. If the number of non-corrupted pixels in the selected window is not sufficient, a window of next higher size is chosen. Thus window size is automatically adapted based on the density of noise in the image as well as the density of corruption local to a window. As a result window size may vary pixel to pixel while filtering. The scheme is simple to implement and do not require multiple iterations. The efficacy of the proposed scheme is evaluated with respect to subjective as well as objective parameters on standard images on various noise densities. Comparative analysis reveals that the proposed scheme has improved performance over other schemes, preferably in high density impulse noise cases. Further, the computational overhead is also less as compared its competent scheme.

A new technique for suppression of Random valued impulse noise from the contaminated digital image using Back Propagation Neural Network is proposed in this paper. The algorithms consist of two stages i.e. Detection of Impulse noise and Filtering of identified noisy pixels. To classify between noisy and non-noisy element present in the image a feed-forward neural network has been trained with well-known back propagation algorithm in the first stage. To make the detection method more accurate, Emphasis has been given on selection of proper input and generation of training patterns. The corrupted pixels are undergoing non-local mean filtering employed in the second stage. The effectiveness of the proposed technique is evaluated using well known standard digital images at different level of impulse noise. Experiments show that the method proposed here has excellent impulse noise suppression capability.

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