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densities. Also it exhibits blurring if the window size is large and leads to insufficient noise suppression if the
Window size is small [3]. In the case of the highly corrupted image, the edge details of the original image will
not be preserved and blurring effect in the filtered image is one of the major drawbacks of SMF. During the
filtering process of the corrupted image, it is importantthat the edge details have to be preserved. The perfect
approach is to apply the filtering technique only to noisy pixels.
To remove SMF problems, Median filters such as Adaptive Median Filter (AMF), Decision–based median
filters can be used for selecting the corrupted pixels first, and then apply the filtering technique on the corrupted
pixel. As a result, only noisy pixels will be replaced by the median value and uncorrupted pixels will be left
unchanged. AMF gives satisfactory performance at low noise densities since the corrupted pixels which are
replaced by the median values are very few. Also, at higher noise densities, window size has to be increased to
get better noise removal which will lead to less correlation between corrupted pixel values and replaced median
pixel values. In the decision-based median filters, the decision is based on a pre-defined threshold value.
However, the major drawback of Decision–based median filters is that defining a robust decision measure is
difficult [3].
To overcome existing filtering problems, we proposed a new algorithm in this paper.This is consists of two
stages. In the first stage, each pixel values are checked if a windows center pixel is corrupted and classify the
corrupted and uncorrupted pixels. In the second stage, corrupted pixels are replaced by either the median pixel
or neighborhood uncorrupted pixel. This proposed algorithm (PA) has used a fixed window size of 3×3 resulting
in lower processing time compared with AMF and a smooth transition between the image pixels. Edge
preservation, remove all noisy pixels and better visual quality have been observed from the results. Also, it gives
better PSNR, SSIM and IEF values compared to the other filtering techniques like Mean Filter, Wiener Filter,
Standard Median Filter [1], Adaptive Median Filter [4], [5], Decision Based Algorithm (DBA) [3], Modify
Standard Median Filter (MMF) [1],and other existing algorithms[7], [8], [9], [10].
II.LITERATURE REVIEW
Chan et al., [6] proposed an algorithm to overcome AMF problem, which consists of two stages. The first stage
is to classify the corrupted and uncorrupted pixels by using AMF and in the second stage, regularization method
is applied to the corrupted pixels to preserve edges and correct noisy pixels. Also, the drawback of this method
is that for high impulse noise, it requires large window size of 39×39, so processing time is very high.
Additionally, it requirescomplex circuitry for the implementation.
There are several approaches for identification and replacement of corrupted pixels butthe simplest approach is
HanafyM.Ali [1] proposed algorithm. This algorithm consists of two stages. The first stage is to classify the
corrupted and uncorrupted pixels and in the second stage, corrupted pixel is replaced by the median of its
neighbors. However, the drawback of this method is that for high noise density, some noisy pixel values are left
unchanged.
Madhu S. Nair et al.[3] proposed a New Decision-Based Algorithm (DBA) can be applied for high noise
density. At the start, it makes a difference between the corrupted and the uncorrupted pixels. Then the filter is
applied only to the corrupted pixels. The advantage of the DBA lies in removing only the noisy pixel either by
the median value or by the mean of the previously processed neighboring pixel values.