An efficient approach to remove random valued impulse noise in images

In this paper, a new algorithm is introduced to remove the random valued impulse noise in images. This algorithm contains two stages. The first stage detects the noisy pixels in the image. In the second stage, the noisy pixel is replaced by the median value of the neighborhood noise free pixels. The absolute difference is used to detect the noisy pixel and trimmed median value replaces the noisy pixel. This proposed algorithm shows better results than the Progressive Switching Median Filter (PSM), Pixel-wise Median Absolute Difference (PWMAD), Tristate median filter (TSM), Efficient Procedure for removing Random Valued Impulse Noise (EPRIN) and Optimal Direction Based random valued impulse noise (ODRIN). The proposed algorithm is tested for different gray scale images and it gives better Peak Signal to Noise Ratio.