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CHAPTER XVII<br />

INTRODUCTION<br />

Images are often corrupted by impulse noise due to errors generated from<br />

sensors or communicational channels. It is important to eliminate noise from<br />

images before face recognition, edge detection, and image segmentation<br />

procedures. To remove the noise from images, there are some filtering methods<br />

like max and min filters, median filters, harmonic mean filter, low pass, high pass,<br />

band pass filters etc. Among them the well­known median filter has been<br />

recognized as an effective way of removing impulse noise. The success of<br />

median filters is based on two main properties: edge preservation and efficient<br />

noise attenuation. Edge preservation is essential in image processing due to the<br />

nature of visual perception. Despite its effectiveness in smoothing noise, median<br />

filters tend to remove fine details when applied to an image.<br />

To eliminate the drawbacks of median filter, the adaptive median filter, has<br />

been proposed. This filter is a modified and complex than median filter and is<br />

capable of performance superior than others. It has variable window sizes for<br />

removing impulses while preserving sharpness at the same time. In this way, the<br />

integrity of edge and detail information becomes better.<br />

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