Robust Meridian Filtering

The linear, median, myriad filtering structures are statistically related to the maximum likelihood (ML) estimates of location under Gaussian, Laplacian, and Cauchy statistics, respectively In this paper, we propose a filtering structure based on the ML estimate of the constructed and so-called meridian statistics. Analysis and simulations presented here indicate that the proposed filtering structure exhibits characteristics more robust than that of mean, median and myriad filtering structures.