Morphological Filtering Algorithm for Restoring Images Contaminated by Impulse Noise

Authors

  • Jorge Domigo Mendiola Santibañez Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico en Electroquímica
  • Miguel Octavio Arias Estrada INAOE
  • Israel Marcos Santillan Mendez UAQ
  • Juvenal Rodriguez Resendiz UAQ
  • Martin Gallegos Duarte UAQ
  • Domingo José Gomez Melendez UPQ
  • Ivan Ramón Terol Villalobos CIDETEQ

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13053/cys-19-2-1913

Keywords:

Noise detection, morphological pixel restoration, transformations by reconstruction.

Abstract

In this paper a methodology to restore gray scale images with pixels polluted by random impulsive noise is presented. Noise is discovered using a criterion based on the white top-hat by reconstruction. Pixels detected as corrupted are restored using an iterative morphological algorithm built with extensive and antiextensive morphological transformations. The proposalis compared with the rank ordered mean filter (ROM) and other morphological transformations reported in the current literature.

Author Biographies

Jorge Domigo Mendiola Santibañez, Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico en Electroquímica

Jorge D Mendiola-Santibañez received the B.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering fromthe Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México, his M.Sc. degree in Electronics from INAOE (México). He received his Ph.D. from the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (México). He is currently a researcher of Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (Querétaro, México). His researchinterests include morphological image processingand computer vision.

Miguel Octavio Arias Estrada, INAOE

Miguel Octavio Arias-Estrada is a researcher incomputer science at National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Puebla, Mexico, with a PhD degree in electrical engineering (computer vision) from Laval University (Canada) and BEng and MEng degrees in electronic engineering from University of Guanajuato (Mexico). Currently, he is a researcher at INAOE (Puebla, Mexico). His interests are computer vision, FPGA and GPU algorithm acceleration for threedimensional machinevision.

Israel Marcos Santillan Mendez, UAQ

Israel Santillán received the B.S. degree in Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, the M.S. degree in Engineering and PhD in Engineering from Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (México). His research interests includemodels of biological sensory and perceptual systemsand mathematical morphology.

Juvenal Rodriguez Resendiz, UAQ

Juvenal Rodríguez-Reséndiz received his MS degree in automation control from University of Querétaro and PhD degree at the same institution. Since 2004, he has been part of the Mechatronics Department at the UAQ. He is the head of the Automation Department. His research interest includes signal processing and motion control. He serves as vice president of IEEE in Queretaro State.

Martin Gallegos Duarte, UAQ

Martín Gallegos-Duarte is an MD and a PhD student at the Universidad Autonoma de Querétaro. He is head of the Strabismus Service at the Institute for the Attention of Congenital Diseases and Ophthalmology-Pediatric Service in the Mexican Institute of Ophthalmology in the state of Queretaro,Mexico.

Domingo José Gomez Melendez, UPQ

Domingo José Gomez-Melendez received hisPhD degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (UAQ), México. Currently, he is a professor/researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro. His research interests include image processing and green houses.

Ivan Ramón Terol Villalobos, CIDETEQ

Iván R. Terol-Villalobos received his B.Sc. degree from Instituto Politécnico Nacional (I.P.N. México), his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del I.P.N. (México), and a DEA in Computer Science from the University of Paris VI (France). He received his Ph.D. degree from the Centre de Morphologie Mathématique, Ecole des Mines de Paris (France). He is currently a researcher of Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico en Electroquímica (Querétaro, México). His main current research interests include morphological image processing, morphological probabilistic models,and computer vision.

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Published

2015-06-01

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Vol. 19 No. 2 (2015): 19(2) April-June 2015

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