Median filter as image preprocessor for machine recognition
Abstract
The main objective of the present investigation was to evaluate median filters and median/inverse filters as image preprocessors for facilitating machine recognition. An experiment for preprocessor evaluation is discussed, taking into account a preprocessor which consists of either a median filter alone or a combination of median/inverse filters. It is found that median filtering offers the most effective preprocessing for enhancing machine recognition in cases in which images are contaminated by impulse-type noise. Median filtering is also effective in cases in which images are degraded by blurs and impulse-type noise. Median/inverse filtering improves the performance for cases of images degraded by both Gaussian white noise and blurs.
- Publication:
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Optical Engineering
- Pub Date:
- December 1985
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.7973624
- Bibcode:
- 1985OptEn..24.1030L
- Keywords:
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- Computer Techniques;
- Image Filters;
- Pattern Recognition;
- Photointerpretation;
- Image Enhancement;
- Image Processing;
- Noise Reduction;
- White Noise;
- Instrumentation and Photography