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Salt-and-pepper noise removal by adaptive median-based lifting filter using second-generation wavelets

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In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive median-based lifting filter for image de-noising which has been corrupted by homogeneous salt and pepper noise. The median-based lifting filter removes the noise of the input image by calculating the median of the neighboring significant pixels. The algorithm for image noise removal uses the lifting scheme of the second-generation wavelets in conjunction with the proposed adaptive median-based lifting filter. The experimental results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method. The proposed algorithm is compared with all the basic filters, and it is found that our method outperforms many other algorithms and it can remove salt and pepper noise with a noise level as high as 90%. The algorithm works exceedingly well for all levels of noise, as illustrated in terms of peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and structural similarity index (SSIM) measures.

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  1. Department of Computer Science & IT, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan, HP, 173215, India

    P. Syamala Jaya Sree, Rajesh Siddavatam & Ravikant Verma

  2. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan, HP, 173215, India

    Pradeep Kumar

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Sree, P.S.J., Kumar, P., Siddavatam, R. et al. Salt-and-pepper noise removal by adaptive median-based lifting filter using second-generation wavelets. SIViP 7, 111–118 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-011-0210-3

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