Extension of Impulse Detectors to Spatial Dimension and their Utilization as Switch in the LMS L-SD Filter

Abstract

In this paper, one kind of adaptive LMS filters based on order statistics is used for two-dimensional filtration of noisy greyscale images degraded by mixed noise. The signal-dependent adaptive LMS L-filter (L-SD) consists of two normalized constrained adaptive LMS L-filters, because they have better convergence properties than simple LMS algorithm. Moreover, first filter suppresses the noise in homogeneous regions and second filter preserves the high components of filtered image. Some versions of spatial order statistic detectors were developed from the impulse detectors and were employed as switch between output these filters.