AN ADAPTIVE RANK FILTER FOR IMAGE ENHANCEMENT DEPENDING ON A MEASURE OF THE LOCAL SPATIAL ORDER
- 1 February 1995
- journal article
- Published by World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd in International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence
- Vol. 9 (1) , 127-144
- https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218001495000079
Abstract
This work describes a new adaptive rank-order filter, which can be useful for image enhancement or as an early processing stage for segmentation purposes. The filter output is selected among the rank-ordered grey values of the observation window, and the output’s rank depends adaptively on a local measure of the spatial order, to be defined suitably. The aim of this adaptation is to allow the filter to meet conflicting requirements, namely noise and texture smoothing, edge sharpening and enhancement of the fine-structured detail. The definition of a measure of the spatial order is discussed, and experimental results, obtained with natural images of different types, are displayed.Keywords
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