Images taken with different sensors and transmitted through different channels can be noisy. In such conditions, the image most often suffers from random-valued impulse noise. Denoising an image is an important part of image preprocessing before recognition by a neural network. The accuracy of image recognition by a neural network directly depends on the intensity of image noise. This paper presents a three-stage image cleaning and recognition system, which includes a developed detector of pulsed noisy pixels, a filter for cleaning found noisy pixels based on an adaptive median, and a neural network program for recognizing cleaned images. It was noted that at low noise intensities, cleaning is practically not required, but noise with an intensity of more than 10% can seriously damage the image and reduce recognition accuracy. As a training base for noise, cleaning, and recognition, the CIFAR10 digital image database was used, consisting of 60,000 images belonging to 10 classes. The results show that the proposed neural network recognition system for images affected by to random-valued impulse noise effectively finds and corrects damaged pixels. This helped to increase the accuracy of image recognition compared to existing methods for cleaning random-valued impulse noise.
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