A Highly Effective Impulse Noise Detection Algorithm for Switching Median Filters

Under the framework of switching median filtering, a highly effective algorithm for impulse noise detection is proposed aiming at providing solid basis for subsequent filtering. This algorithm consists of two iterations to make the decision as accurate as possible. Two robust and reliable decision criteria are proposed for each iteration. Extensive simulation results show that the false alarm rate and miss detection rate of the proposed algorithm are both very low and substantially outperform existing state-of-the-art algorithms. At the same time, the proposed algorithm is in principle simpler as it is intuitive and it is easy to implement as it has uncomplicated structure and few codes.