A new FIR filter for image restoration

Ahmad, Imteyaz and Mondal, Partha P and Kanhirodan, Rajan (2006) A new FIR filter for image restoration. In: 1st IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, MAY 24-26, 2006, ingapore, SINGAPORE, pp. 1542-1547.

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Abstract

Image filtering techniques have potential applications in biomedical image processing such as image restoration and image enhancement. The potential of traditional filters largely depends on the apriori knowledge about the type of noise corrupting the image. This makes the standard filters to be application specific. For example, the well-known median filter and its variants can remove the salt-and-pepper (or impulse) noise at low noise levels. Each of these methods has its own advantages and disadvantages. In this paper, we have introduced a new finite impulse response (FIR) filter for image restoration where, the filter undergoes a learning procedure. The filter coefficients are adaptively updated based on correlated Hebbian learning. This algorithm exploits the inter pixel correlation in the form of Hebbian learning and hence performs optimal smoothening of the noisy images. The application of the proposed filter on images corrupted with Gaussian noise, results in restorations which are better in quality compared to those restored by average and Wiener filters. The restored image is found to be visually appealing and artifact-free

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Series.:	IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications
Publisher:	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering(Formerly Aeronautical Engineering)
Date Deposited:	03 Aug 2010 05:39
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 06:12
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/30708

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