A genetic based generic filter for image impulse noise reduction

The captured images usually are influenced by impulse noise therefore removing impulse noise is one of most important pre-processing phases in many applications. In this paper, we have proposed a genetic based method to remove impulse noise. This method proposes a composite filter which is a combination of several standard filters to reduce the noise effect. The experimental results showed the proposed method could efficiently restore degraded image while it is approximately stable to noise ratio increment.