A method of impulse noise removal using level detection
Noritaka Yamashita, Munenori Ogura, Jianming Lu, Hiroo Sekiya, and Takashi Yahagi
IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Infomation and Systems, vol.124, no.11, pp.2378-2379, Nov., 2004. [pdf document]

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In this paper, we propose a new impulse noise filtering procedure from images using level detection.In our method, we use directional windows allowing continuity of edge. In our system, an window that is selected from multi-windows includes flat region.Thus, selected window has low variation in pixel values, and enhances the performance of restoration at edge. Extensive simulations indicate that proposed method performs significantly better than traditional methods.