The effect of input limiting on linear and nonlinear filters for the removal of impulsive noise

This paper investigates the effects of input limiting on the performance of linear and nonlinear filters when the input signal is contaminated by impulsive noise modeled as an alphastable (!-stable) random process. The nonlinear filters chosen are from the median family filters: median and recursiv...

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Main Authors: Sharifah Masniah, Wan Masra, Muhammad, M.S., Sapawi, R.
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2010
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author Sharifah Masniah, Wan Masra
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Sapawi, R.
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description This paper investigates the effects of input limiting on the performance of linear and nonlinear filters when the input signal is contaminated by impulsive noise modeled as an alphastable (!-stable) random process. The nonlinear filters chosen are from the median family filters: median and recursive median filter, and Wiener filter from the linear filter group. The hypothesis being tested in this paper is that front-end limiting will increased the performance of median filter when the noise was extremely impulsive. Each image has been analyzed for four impulsive noise parameter values, ! = 2, 1.5, 1, and 0.5 which cover a range of noise behaviors from Gaussian, through Cauchy, to impulsive. One method of handling very large impulses is to incorporate in the receiver over-voltage protection in the form of an analog limiter which clips the received signal before the filtering process. The simulation results obtained suggest that the front-end limiting enhances the performance of median filters in dealing with images, where it eliminates the highly impulsive noise while preserving useful detail in the image.
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spelling unimas-178112022-03-21T03:20:34Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17811/ The effect of input limiting on linear and nonlinear filters for the removal of impulsive noise Sharifah Masniah, Wan Masra Muhammad, M.S. Sapawi, R. TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering This paper investigates the effects of input limiting on the performance of linear and nonlinear filters when the input signal is contaminated by impulsive noise modeled as an alphastable (!-stable) random process. The nonlinear filters chosen are from the median family filters: median and recursive median filter, and Wiener filter from the linear filter group. The hypothesis being tested in this paper is that front-end limiting will increased the performance of median filter when the noise was extremely impulsive. Each image has been analyzed for four impulsive noise parameter values, ! = 2, 1.5, 1, and 0.5 which cover a range of noise behaviors from Gaussian, through Cauchy, to impulsive. One method of handling very large impulses is to incorporate in the receiver over-voltage protection in the form of an analog limiter which clips the received signal before the filtering process. The simulation results obtained suggest that the front-end limiting enhances the performance of median filters in dealing with images, where it eliminates the highly impulsive noise while preserving useful detail in the image. IEEE 2010 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17811/1/The%20Effect%20of%20Input.pdf Sharifah Masniah, Wan Masra and Muhammad, M.S. and Sapawi, R. (2010) The effect of input limiting on linear and nonlinear filters for the removal of impulsive noise. IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications (ICSIPA), 2009. ISSN Print ISBN: 978-1-4244-5560-7 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5478605/ DOI: 10.1109/ICSIPA.2009.5478605
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Sharifah Masniah, Wan Masra
Muhammad, M.S.
Sapawi, R.
The effect of input limiting on linear and nonlinear filters for the removal of impulsive noise
title The effect of input limiting on linear and nonlinear filters for the removal of impulsive noise
title_full The effect of input limiting on linear and nonlinear filters for the removal of impulsive noise
title_fullStr The effect of input limiting on linear and nonlinear filters for the removal of impulsive noise
title_full_unstemmed The effect of input limiting on linear and nonlinear filters for the removal of impulsive noise
title_short The effect of input limiting on linear and nonlinear filters for the removal of impulsive noise
title_sort effect of input limiting on linear and nonlinear filters for the removal of impulsive noise
topic TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
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