IOSR Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering(IOSR-JECE) is an open access international journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of electronics and communication engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in electronics and communication engineering. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
Non-Blind Deblurring Using Partial Differential Equation MethodEditor IJCATR
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In this paper, a new idea for two dimensional image deblurring algorithm is introduced which uses basic concepts of PDEs... The various methods to estimate the degradation function (PSF is known in prior called non-blind deblurring) for use in restoration are observation, experimentation and mathematical modeling. Here, PDE based mathematical modeling is proposed to model the degradation and recovery process. Several restoration methods such as Weiner Filtering, Inverse Filtering [1], Constrained Least Squares, and Lucy -Richardson iteration remove the motion blur either using Fourier Transformation in frequency domain or by using optimization techniques. The main difficulty with these methods is to estimate the deviation of the restored image from the original image at individual points that is due to the mechanism of these methods as processing in frequency domain .Another method, the travelling wave de-blurring method is a approach that works in spatial domain.PDE type of observation model describes well several physical mechanisms, such as relative motion between the camera and the subject (motion blur), bad focusing (defocusing blur), or a number of other mechanisms which are well modeled by a convolution. In last PDE method is compared with the existing restoration techniques such as weiner filters, median filters [2] and the results are compared on the basis of calculated PSNR for various noises
IMAGE DENOISING BY MEDIAN FILTER IN WAVELET DOMAINijma
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The details of an image with noise may be restored by removing noise through a suitable image de-noising
method. In this research, a new method of image de-noising based on using median filter (MF) in the
wavelet domain is proposed and tested. Various types of wavelet transform filters are used in conjunction
with median filter in experimenting with the proposed approach in order to obtain better results for image
de-noising process, and, consequently to select the best suited filter. Wavelet transform working on the
frequencies of sub-bands split from an image is a powerful method for analysis of images. According to this
experimental work, the proposed method presents better results than using only wavelet transform or
median filter alone. The MSE and PSNR values are used for measuring the improvement in de-noised
images.
Non-Blind Deblurring Using Partial Differential Equation MethodEditor IJCATR
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In this paper, a new idea for two dimensional image deblurring algorithm is introduced which uses basic concepts of PDEs... The various methods to estimate the degradation function (PSF is known in prior called non-blind deblurring) for use in restoration are observation, experimentation and mathematical modeling. Here, PDE based mathematical modeling is proposed to model the degradation and recovery process. Several restoration methods such as Weiner Filtering, Inverse Filtering [1], Constrained Least Squares, and Lucy -Richardson iteration remove the motion blur either using Fourier Transformation in frequency domain or by using optimization techniques. The main difficulty with these methods is to estimate the deviation of the restored image from the original image at individual points that is due to the mechanism of these methods as processing in frequency domain .Another method, the travelling wave de-blurring method is a approach that works in spatial domain.PDE type of observation model describes well several physical mechanisms, such as relative motion between the camera and the subject (motion blur), bad focusing (defocusing blur), or a number of other mechanisms which are well modeled by a convolution. In last PDE method is compared with the existing restoration techniques such as weiner filters, median filters [2] and the results are compared on the basis of calculated PSNR for various noises
IMAGE DENOISING BY MEDIAN FILTER IN WAVELET DOMAINijma
ย
The details of an image with noise may be restored by removing noise through a suitable image de-noising
method. In this research, a new method of image de-noising based on using median filter (MF) in the
wavelet domain is proposed and tested. Various types of wavelet transform filters are used in conjunction
with median filter in experimenting with the proposed approach in order to obtain better results for image
de-noising process, and, consequently to select the best suited filter. Wavelet transform working on the
frequencies of sub-bands split from an image is a powerful method for analysis of images. According to this
experimental work, the proposed method presents better results than using only wavelet transform or
median filter alone. The MSE and PSNR values are used for measuring the improvement in de-noised
images.
Comparative analysis of filters and wavelet based thresholding methods for im...csandit
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Image Denoising is an important part of diverse image processing and computer vision
problems. The important property of a good image denoising model is that it should completely
remove noise as far as possible as well as preserve edges. One of the most powerful and
perspective approaches in this area is image denoising using discrete wavelet transform (DWT).
In this paper comparative analysis of filters and various wavelet based methods has been
carried out. The simulation results show that wavelet based Bayes shrinkage method
outperforms other methods in terms of peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and mean square
error(MSE) and also the comparison of various wavelet families have been discussed in this
paper.
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research(IJCER)ijceronline
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International Journal of Computational Engineering Research(IJCER) is an intentional online Journal in English monthly publishing journal. This Journal publish original research work that contributes significantly to further the scientific knowledge in engineering and Technology.
Random Valued Impulse Noise Removal in Colour Images using Adaptive Threshold...IDES Editor
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To remove random valued impulse noise from
colour images, an efficient impulse detection and filtering
scheme is presented. The locally adaptive threshold for
impulse detection is derived from the pixels of the filtering
window. The restoration of the noisy pixel is done on the basis
of brightness and chromaticity information obtained from the
neighbouring pixels in the filtering window. Experimental
results demonstrate that the proposed scheme yields much
superior performance in comparison with other colour image
filtering methods.
Image Enhancement: Introduction to Spatial Filters, Low Pass Filter and High Pass Filters. Here Discussed Image Smoothing and Image Sharping, Gaussian Filters
In the past two decades, the technique of image processing has made its way into every aspect of todayโs tech-savvy society. Its applications encompass a wide variety of specialized disciplines including medical imaging, machine vision, remote sensing and astronomy. Personal images captured by various digital cameras can easily be manipulated by a variety of dedicated image processing algorithms. Image restoration can be described as an important part of image processing technique. The basic objective is to enhance the quality of an image by removing defects and make it look pleasing. The method used to carry out the project was MATLAB software. Mathematical algorithms were programmed and tested for the result to find the necessary output. In this project mathematical analysis was the basic core. Generally the spatial and frequency domain methods were both important and applicable in different technologies. This project has tried to show the comparison between spatial and frequency domain approaches and their advantages and disadvantages. This project also suggested that more research have to be done in many other image processing applications to show the importance of those methods.
In this paper a PDE based hybrid method for image denoising is introduced. The method is a bi-stage filter with anisotropic diffusion followed by wavelet based bayesian shrinkage. Here efficient denoising is achieved by reducing the convergence time of anisotropic diffusion.
Removing noise from the Medical image is still a challenging problem for researchers. Noise added is not easy to remove from the images. There have been several published algorithms and each approach has its assumptions, advantages, and limitations. This paper summarizes the major techniques to denoise the medical images and finds the one is better for image denoising. We can conclude that the Multiwavelet technique with Soft threshold is the best technique for image denoising.
This presentation contains concepts of different image restoration and reconstruction techniques used nowadays in the field of digital image processing. Slides are prepared from Gonzalez book and Pratt book.
The International Journal of Engineering and Science (The IJES)theijes
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The International Journal of Engineering & Science is aimed at providing a platform for researchers, engineers, scientists, or educators to publish their original research results, to exchange new ideas, to disseminate information in innovative designs, engineering experiences and technological skills. It is also the Journal's objective to promote engineering and technology education. All papers submitted to the Journal will be blind peer-reviewed. Only original articles will be published.
The Analysis of Plyometric Training Program on University Handball PlayersIOSR Journals
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Abstract: The purpose of this study was to find out the efficiency of composed plyometric training program on
beginners Handball players force capabilities in their usual training period. The plyometric training program
was applied during 16 week period where was attended twenty-one 12-19 years old beginners Handball
players. Twelve of them were female and nine male handball players. There were three control tastings. All
subjects participated in following tests: standing long jump, depth leap long jump, medicine ball throws up in
10 seconds; medicine ball overhead throws forward against the wall in 10 seconds, maximal vertical jumps to
the maximal height in 10 seconds, maximal vertical jump height. Testing results statistical analysis has shown
athletes legs and arms speed force reliable improvement. Standing long jump, depth leap long jump and
maximal vertical jump height test results, what has shown legs explosive power, has not shown remarkable
reliable difference (P>0.05) . Medicine ball throws and maximal vertical jumps to the maximal height in 10
seconds, what show speed force improvement, showed reliable difference (P<0.01).
Key words: TRAINING METHOD, LEGS AND ARMS SPEED FORCE TRAINING.
Comparative analysis of filters and wavelet based thresholding methods for im...csandit
ย
Image Denoising is an important part of diverse image processing and computer vision
problems. The important property of a good image denoising model is that it should completely
remove noise as far as possible as well as preserve edges. One of the most powerful and
perspective approaches in this area is image denoising using discrete wavelet transform (DWT).
In this paper comparative analysis of filters and various wavelet based methods has been
carried out. The simulation results show that wavelet based Bayes shrinkage method
outperforms other methods in terms of peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and mean square
error(MSE) and also the comparison of various wavelet families have been discussed in this
paper.
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research(IJCER)ijceronline
ย
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research(IJCER) is an intentional online Journal in English monthly publishing journal. This Journal publish original research work that contributes significantly to further the scientific knowledge in engineering and Technology.
Random Valued Impulse Noise Removal in Colour Images using Adaptive Threshold...IDES Editor
ย
To remove random valued impulse noise from
colour images, an efficient impulse detection and filtering
scheme is presented. The locally adaptive threshold for
impulse detection is derived from the pixels of the filtering
window. The restoration of the noisy pixel is done on the basis
of brightness and chromaticity information obtained from the
neighbouring pixels in the filtering window. Experimental
results demonstrate that the proposed scheme yields much
superior performance in comparison with other colour image
filtering methods.
Image Enhancement: Introduction to Spatial Filters, Low Pass Filter and High Pass Filters. Here Discussed Image Smoothing and Image Sharping, Gaussian Filters
In the past two decades, the technique of image processing has made its way into every aspect of todayโs tech-savvy society. Its applications encompass a wide variety of specialized disciplines including medical imaging, machine vision, remote sensing and astronomy. Personal images captured by various digital cameras can easily be manipulated by a variety of dedicated image processing algorithms. Image restoration can be described as an important part of image processing technique. The basic objective is to enhance the quality of an image by removing defects and make it look pleasing. The method used to carry out the project was MATLAB software. Mathematical algorithms were programmed and tested for the result to find the necessary output. In this project mathematical analysis was the basic core. Generally the spatial and frequency domain methods were both important and applicable in different technologies. This project has tried to show the comparison between spatial and frequency domain approaches and their advantages and disadvantages. This project also suggested that more research have to be done in many other image processing applications to show the importance of those methods.
In this paper a PDE based hybrid method for image denoising is introduced. The method is a bi-stage filter with anisotropic diffusion followed by wavelet based bayesian shrinkage. Here efficient denoising is achieved by reducing the convergence time of anisotropic diffusion.
Removing noise from the Medical image is still a challenging problem for researchers. Noise added is not easy to remove from the images. There have been several published algorithms and each approach has its assumptions, advantages, and limitations. This paper summarizes the major techniques to denoise the medical images and finds the one is better for image denoising. We can conclude that the Multiwavelet technique with Soft threshold is the best technique for image denoising.
This presentation contains concepts of different image restoration and reconstruction techniques used nowadays in the field of digital image processing. Slides are prepared from Gonzalez book and Pratt book.
The International Journal of Engineering and Science (The IJES)theijes
ย
The International Journal of Engineering & Science is aimed at providing a platform for researchers, engineers, scientists, or educators to publish their original research results, to exchange new ideas, to disseminate information in innovative designs, engineering experiences and technological skills. It is also the Journal's objective to promote engineering and technology education. All papers submitted to the Journal will be blind peer-reviewed. Only original articles will be published.
The Analysis of Plyometric Training Program on University Handball PlayersIOSR Journals
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Abstract: The purpose of this study was to find out the efficiency of composed plyometric training program on
beginners Handball players force capabilities in their usual training period. The plyometric training program
was applied during 16 week period where was attended twenty-one 12-19 years old beginners Handball
players. Twelve of them were female and nine male handball players. There were three control tastings. All
subjects participated in following tests: standing long jump, depth leap long jump, medicine ball throws up in
10 seconds; medicine ball overhead throws forward against the wall in 10 seconds, maximal vertical jumps to
the maximal height in 10 seconds, maximal vertical jump height. Testing results statistical analysis has shown
athletes legs and arms speed force reliable improvement. Standing long jump, depth leap long jump and
maximal vertical jump height test results, what has shown legs explosive power, has not shown remarkable
reliable difference (P>0.05) . Medicine ball throws and maximal vertical jumps to the maximal height in 10
seconds, what show speed force improvement, showed reliable difference (P<0.01).
Key words: TRAINING METHOD, LEGS AND ARMS SPEED FORCE TRAINING.
Spatial Correlation Based Medium Access Control Protocol Using DSR & AODV Rou...IOSR Journals
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Abstract : In Wireless sensor network sensor nodes have a limited battery life and their efficient utilization is
a very much importent task. Their are many ways are proposed for efficient utilization of energy.For efficient
energy utilization many topologies,protocals are proposed by the help of which we can maximize the battery
life. In this paper we propesed a methode in which a correlation is made between all the sensor nodes including
ME(mobile element). A Vector Quantization methode are used for distance calculation between all the sensor
nodes and mobile element. After finding the corrรฉlation we used the DSR & AODV routing Protocol. The
performance of the proposed protocol has been examined and evaluated with the NS-2 simulator in terms of
packet drop ratio and energy consumption. The simulation result shows that the proposed protocol with AODV
routing gives a batter result compared with same protocol with DSR routing.
Keywords: ME, DVT, DSR, AODV, Wireless Sensor Network, Efficient Energy Utilization
IOSR Journal of Applied Physics (IOSR-JAP) is an open access international journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of physics and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in applied physics. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
IOSR Journal of Mathematics(IOSR-JM) is an open access international journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of mathemetics and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in mathematics. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
Notions via ฮฒ*-open sets in topological spacesIOSR Journals
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In this paper, first we define ฮฒ*-open sets and ฮฒ*-interior in topological spaces.J.Antony Rex Rodrigo[3] has studied the topological properties of ๐ * -derived, ๐ * -border, ๐ * -frontier and ๐ * exterior of a set using the concept of ๐ * -open following M.Caldas,S.Jafari and T.Noiri[5]. By the same technique the concept of ฮฒ*-derived, ฮฒ*-border, ฮฒ*-frontier and ฮฒ*exterior of a set using the concept of ฮฒ*-open sets are introduced.Some interesting results that shows the relationships between these concepts are brought about
IOSR Journal of Applied Physics (IOSR-JAP) is an open access international journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of physics and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in applied physics. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
Ingoldian Fungi in Kigga Falls, Chikmagalur District, KarnatakaIOSR Journals
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Fungi are the ubiquitous organism.The exist in diverse forms in a range of habitats, arboreal,
freshwater, marine, subterranean and terrestrial. In fresh water we concentrated only Ingoldian fungi. The
selected study sites of foam samples and decaying debris were collected in the same study area and kept for
screening and incubation respectively. The conidia developing on decayingdebris were screened using
microscope. The collected foam samples were revealed Ingoldian fungi. In this contribution of occurrence and
abundance of Ingoldian fungi were enumerated. A total of 24 species were isolated twelve genera were
identified.
Detection Of Escherichia Coli, An Indicator Of Feacal Contamination, In Drink...IOSR Journals
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The detection of Escherichia coli as an indicator of faucal contamination in drinking water sources in Amassoma town, a host Community of the Niger Delta University, Bayelsa State in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, was carried out to determine their suitability for drinking. Result obtained showed mean total coliform bacterial counts of 2.05 x103 cfu/ml for borehole water, 1.25x103 cfu/ml for well water and 1.0x103 for pipe borne water. The mean count of faecal coliform was 2.1x103 cfu/ml for borehole water, 4.5x10 cfu/ml for well water and 1.0x10 cfu/ml for pipe borne water. The faecal coliform identified was Escherichia coli. Sources of contamination were found to be septic tanks, waste dump sites and periodic flooding of the area, being a typical wetland environment. It was concluded that water from the different sources studied in Amassoma did not meet the world health Organization (WHO) standard for drinking water. This study has therefore shown the need for continuous monitoring of our water supply systems.
Prevalence and morphological details of Nyctotherus periplanetae in the host ...IOSR Journals
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Nyctotherus periplanetae is very common intestine dwelling ciliate in invertebrates. During the period of two years total number of 1842 intestinal samples of Periplaneta americana were checked. The percentage of prevalence of ciliates was found quite high and it was 57.77% during the year 2007 and 60.75% in 2008.
Hepatoprotective Activity of Chara Parpam in Ccl4 Induced RatsIOSR Journals
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Siddha system of medicine provides most frequently and to the extent possible and promising therapy for the relief of signs and symptoms of liver disorder over the generations. Their high therapeutic quality and lack of toxicity are exceptional. The present experimental work was to evaluate the hepatoprotective properties of Siddha herbo-mineral formulation Chara Parpam by CCl4 induced hepatotoxicity in albino rats. Two doses of Chara Parpam (5 mg/kg and 10 mg/kg) were administered to rats. Protection of hepatocytes was evaluated by estimate the level of ALT, AST, ALP, serum bilirubin, total protein, serum albumin, sodium and potassium during the exposure of CCL4 on wistar albino rats and to evaluate the effect of different doses of Chara Parpam against hepatotoxicity induced by CCL4. Liver histology was performed 24 hours after the administration of trial drug Chara Parpam. The result indicated that the concentration of ALT, AST, and ALP, released by hepatocytes were significantly reduced in the presence of Chara Parpam. The cytoprotective effects of the Chara Parpam are dose-dependent. Through this work, we demonstrate for the first time the direct protection of liver cells by administration of Chara Parpam confirming its hepatoprotective properties.
A Quantified Approach for large Dataset Compression in Association MiningIOSR Journals
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Abstract: With the rapid development of computer and information technology in the last several decades, an
enormous amount of data in science and engineering will continuously be generated in massive scale; data
compression is needed to reduce the cost and storage space. Compression and discovering association rules by
identifying relationships among sets of items in a transaction database is an important problem in Data Mining.
Finding frequent itemsets is computationally the most expensive step in association rule discovery and therefore
it has attracted significant research attention. However, existing compression algorithms are not appropriate in
data mining for large data sets. In this research a new approach is describe in which the original dataset is
sorted in lexicographical order and desired number of groups are formed to generate the quantification tables.
These quantification tables are used to generate the compressed dataset, which is more efficient algorithm for
mining complete frequent itemsets from compressed dataset. The experimental results show that the proposed
algorithm performs better when comparing it with the mining merge algorithm with different supports and
execution time.
Keywords: Apriori Algorithm, mining merge Algorithm, quantification table
IOSR Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering(IOSR-JECE) is an open access international journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of electronics and communication engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in electronics and communication engineering. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
Protein structure determination of insulin of zebra fish (Danio rerio) by hom...IOSR Journals
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The protein sequence of insulin of zebra fish is obtained from UniProt. Due to lack of their structure, structure prediction is necessary, because the structure of protein plays an important role in their function. Our work is based on the production of two protein structure, from the same sequence, by computational approach and finally validates these generated structures. In this work two different widely acceptable online web tool are used for generating structure from the protein sequences of insulin of zebra fish. These are Swiss Model web server and ESyPred3D web server. After getting structure from this two web tool, the structures are passed by a series of quality tests. ProQ web software is used for checking quality of these generated structures. 3d-ss web tool is used for superimposition between two generated structures. It can compare between two structures. The Ramachandran plot is calculated by using VegaZZ software. CASTp (Computer Atlas of Surface Topology of protein) is a web tool, used to predict active sides with their respective volume and area. Finally ProFunc tool is used for analysis of two structures
Optimal Estimating Sequence for a Hilbert Space Valued ParameterIOSR Journals
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Some optimality criteria used in estimation of parameters in finite dimensional space has been extended to a separable Hilbert space. Different optimality criteria and their equivalence are established for estimating sequence rather than estimator. An illustrious example is provided with the estimation of the mean of a Gaussian process
Callus Induction and Plantlet Regeneration in Orthosiphon aristatus (Blume) M...IOSR Journals
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An efficient protocol was devised for rapid callus induction and plantlet regeneration from the leaves of Orthosiphon aristatus. For callus induction, auxins such as 2, 4-D, IAA, NAA alone and in combination with cytokinin BAP were used. The most effective medium for callus induction and shoot regeneration was M S medium fortified with 8mg/l BAP and 2mg/l NAA, on which multiple shoots were obtained after 15 days of callus induction. All the in vitro raised shoots with length of 3-5 cm were transferred to rooting medium supplemented with different concentrations of IBA. The best rooting response was observed on half strength M S liquid medium supplemented with 3mg/l IBA. The established plantlets obtained were subjected to hardening and acclimatisation by transferring to polycups containing sterile soil for 3-4 weeks and then to the field, where
85% survived to maturity
A preliminary study on the toxic potentials of shea butter effluent using Cla...IOSR Journals
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This study was conducted purposely to evaluate the effects of shea butter effluent (SBE) on the
freshwater inhabitant using Clarias gariepinus as a biological model. A prominent Local factory of shea butter
at Tede, ATISBO Local Government was chosen because the effluent flows directly into a near-by stream that
ends up at a popular Dam in the Local Government on which more than 120,000 people depend for domestic
use.Static bioassay was conducted to determine the LC50 of shea butter effluent to Clarias gariepinus. Ten fishes
each were exposed to 0.05, 0.06, 0.07, 0.08, and 0.09ppt (lethal concentration) of SBE in separate water plastic
bowl of (40cmX29cmX28cm) of 60litres capacity.The lethal Concentration (LC50) value of SBE was 0.057ppt for
96hrs of exposure. Total mortality occurred in the concentrations of 0.08 and 0.09ppt within 24hours of
exposure period. Behavioural reactions exhibited by the fish include erratic movement, air gulping, loss of
reflex, molting, barbell deformation, hemorrhage, and excessive mucus secretion in fish exposed to higher
concentration of shea butter effluent.
The appreciable increase in the mean value of heavy metal, such as Manganese, Nickel, Cadmium,
Zinc, Copper and Lead revealed that the increase in the concentration of shea butter effluent leads to
bioaccumulation of the aforementioned heavy metals in the test organisms. The values for all the metals exceed
the permissible Criteria of the national and international regulatory body. Therefore, Shea butter effluent is
highly toxic to freshwater fishes, its discharged directly into water bodies, new fish farms or in areas close to
aquatic environment should not be encouraged.
Performance Assessment of Several Filters for Removing Salt and Pepper Noise,...IJEACS
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Digital images are prone to a variety of noises. De-noising of image is a crucial fragment of image reconstruction procedure. Noise gets familiarized in the course of reception and transmission, acquisition and storage & recovery processes. Hence de-noising an image becomes a fundamental task for correcting defects produced during these processes. A complete examination of the various noises which corrupt an image is included in this paper. Elimination of noises is done using various filters. To attain noteworthy results various filters have been anticipated to eliminate these noises from Images and finally which filter is most suitable to remove a particular noise is seen using various measurement parameters.
Images of different body organs play very important role in medical diagnosis. Images can be taken
by using different techniques like x-rays, gamma rays, ultrasound etc. Ultrasound images are widely used
as a diagnosis tool because of its non invasive nature and low cost. The medical images which uses the
principle of coherence suffers from speckle noise, which is multiplicative in nature. Ultrasound images are
coherent images so speckle noise is inherited in ultrasound images which occur at the time of image
acquisition. There are many factors which can degrade the quality of image but noise present in ultrasound
image is a prime factor which can negatively affect result while autonomous machine perception. In this
paper we will discuss types of noises and speckle reduction techniques. In the end, study about speckle
reduction in ultrasound of various researchers will be compared.
Reduced Ordering Based Approach to Impulsive Noise Suppression in Color ImagesIDES Editor
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In this paper a novel filtering design intended for
the impulsive noise removal in color images is presented.
The described scheme utilizes the rank weighted cumulated
distances between the pixels belonging to the local filtering
window. The impulse detection scheme is based on the
difference between the aggregated weighted distances assigned
to the central pixel of the window and the minimum value,
which corresponds to the rank weighted vector median. If the
difference exceeds an adaptively determined threshold value,
then the processed pixel is replaced by the mean of the
neighboring pixels, which were found to be not corrupted,
otherwise it is retained. The important feature of the described
filtering framework is its ability to effectively suppress
impulsive noise, while preserving fine image details. The
comparison with the state-of-the-art denoising schemes
revealed that the proposed filter yields better restoration
results in terms of objective restoration quality measures.
Robustness of Median Filter For Suppression of Salt and Pepper Noise (SPN) an...CSCJournals
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Noises in images are caused by many sources. Image de-noising has remained an active area of research. Results of numerical experiments on the robustness of median filter for suppression of Salt and Pepper Noise (SPN) and Random Valued Impulse Noise (RVIN) of varying noise densities are presented and discussed. Varying densities of SPN and RVIN were simulated and used to corrupt five selected test images which have different image frequencies. The corrupted images were filtered with Median Filters which has 3 by 3 kernel size. The effects of larger kernels were also examined. The performance metrics are the Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Gain. SPN is found to have more adverse effects on images than RVIN. However, the Median filter is found to achieve a higher degree of noise suppression with SPN than RVIN. Effects of SPN and RVIN increase with an increase in noise density. Median filtering of SPN and RVIN corrupted images are found to be satisfactory with 3 by 3 kernel for noise densities up to the maximum of 60% and 40% noise densities respectively. Median filter Gain is found to increase with noise density up 40% and then reduce with further increase in noise density. To some extent, there is some correlation between Median filter gain and test image frequency. Using 5 by 5 kernel may improve noise suppression but the resulting filter image is blurred. 3 by 3 is the optimum kernel size.
Analysis of Non Linear Filters with Various Density of Impulse Noise for Diff...IJERA Editor
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Corrupted digital images are recovered by using median filters. The most frequently occur noise is salt and pepper type impulse noise. As the noise increases it becomes hard to recover the noisy digital image. Different median filters have been suggested to recover it. Size of the window taken in the filter is also the important factor at different level of noises. The performance of standard median filter (SMF), centered weighted median (CWM) filter and directional weighted median (DWM) filter is tested on gray scale images corrupted with variable percentage of salt & pepper noise impulse noise. It is also tested for different window sizes of filters. Some filter performs better at low noise while some performs better at high noise. At higher level of noise, large window size in the filters works better than small window size. These comparisons are very helpful in deciding the best filter at different level of noise.
Nonlinear Transformation Based Detection And Directional Mean Filter to Remo...IJMER
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In this paper, a novel two stage algorithm for the removal of random valued impulse noise
from the images is presented. In the first stage the noise pixels are detected by using an exponential
nonlinear function. The transformation of the pixels increases the gap between noisy and noise free
candidates which leads to an efficient detection. In the second stage, the directional differences between
the pixels in the four main directions are calculated. The mean values of the pixels which lie in the
direction of minimum difference are calculated and the noisy pixel values are replaced with the mean
value of the pixels lying in the direction of minimum difference. Experimental results show that proposed
method is superior to the conventional methods in peak signal to noise ratio.
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Edge Detection with Detail Preservation for RVIN Using Adaptive Threshold Fil...iosrjce
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Images are often corrupted by impulse noise in the procedures of image acquisition and
transmission. In this paper we proposes a method for effective detection of noisy pixel based on median value
and an efficient algorithm for the estimation and replacement of noisy pixel, the replacement of noisy pixel is
carried out twicewhich provides better preservation of image details. The presence of high performing detection
stage for the detection noisy pixel makes the proposed method suitable in the case of noiselevels as high as 60%
to 90% random valued impulse noise; the proposed method yields better image quality.
1. IOSR Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering (IOSR-JECE)
e-ISSN: 2278-2834,p- ISSN: 2278-8735. Volume 5, Issue 3 (Mar. - Apr. 2013), PP 31-34
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A New Method of Image Fusion Technique for Impulse Noise
Removal in Digital Images using the quality Assessment in Spatial
Domain
Ajay kumar Beesetti1, Dr.Rajyalakshmi Valluri2, Minusha Songa3
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Ajay Kumar Beesetti, B.E Student, Department of ECE, ANITS/Andhra University(A.U), Visakhapatnam.
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Dr.Rajyalakshmi Valluri, Associate Professor, Department of ECE, ANITS/A.U, Visakhapatnam.
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Minusha Songa, B.Tech Student, Department of ECE,SPMV, Tirupati.
Abstract: Due to advancement of technology, remote sensing plays very important role in satellite based
communication. Satellite gives images in digital format. The digital images are corrupted by impulse noise due
to errors generated in camera sensors, analog-to-digital conversion and communication channels. The noise
density varies depending on various factors namely reflective surfaces, atmospheric variations, noisy
communication channels etc. Impulse noise corruption is very common in digital images. Therefore it is
necessary to remove impulse noise in-order to provide further processing such as edge detection, segmentation,
pattern recognition etc. Filtering a noisy image, while preserving the image details is one of the most important
issues in image processing. The images captured by different sensors, producing different impulse noisy images
are considered and they undergoes iterative filtering algorithm, search for the noise-free pixels within a small
neighborhood. These filtered images are combined to a single image called image fusion, which retains the
important features of the images from individual sensors. In this paper, we introduce an image fusion technique
for impulse noise reduction, where the fused image will combine the uncorrupted pixels of the filtered noisy
images. The performance of the Image Fusion is evaluated by using a reference image quality metric, Structural
similarity Index (SSIM), to estimate how well the important information in the de-noised images is represented
by the fused image. Experimental results show that the fused image has more quality than other filtered images.
Keywords - Impulse Noise, Image fusion, Filtering, De-noised Image.
I. Introduction
Digital images are often corrupted during acquisition, transmission or due to faulty memory locations in
hardware [1]. The impulse noise can be caused by a camera due to the faulty nature of the sensor or during
transmission of coded images in a noisy communication channel [2]. Noise is undesired information that
contaminates an image. Noise appears in image from various sources. The digital image acquisition process
converts an optical image into a continuous electrical signal. This electrical signal sampled, is primary process
by which noise appears in digital image. There are several ways through which noise can be introduced into an
image, depending on how the image is created. This is the main problem in remote sensing applications. In this
paper, the images captured by five different sensors are filtered using five different non-linear filtering
algorithms such as Standard Vector Median Filter (VMF), Rank Conditioned VMF, Rank conditioned and
Threshold VMF, Center Weighted VMF and Absolute Deviation VMF., producing five de-noised images. These
de-noised images are fused using our fusion technique, thus obtaining a high quality image.
II. Impulse Noise In Digital Images
Impulse noise is independent and uncorrelated to the image pixels and is randomly distributed over the
image. For an impulse noise corrupted image all the image pixels are not noisy, a number of image pixels will
be noisy and the rest of pixels will be noise free. There are different types of impulse noise namely salt and
pepper type of noise and random valued impulse noise. In salt and pepper type of noise the noisy pixels takes
either salt value (gray level -225) or pepper value (grey level -0) and it appears as black and white spots on the
images. In case of random valued impulse noise, noise can take any gray level value from zero to 225. In this
case also noise is randomly distributed over the entire image and probability of occurrence of any gray level
value as noise will be same.
III. Order Static Filters For Color Image Processing
Order-static filters are nonlinear filters whose response is based on the ordering (ranking) the pixels
contained in the image area encompassed by the filter, and then replacing the value of the center pixel with the
value determined by the ranking result.
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A. Vector Median Filter:
In the vector median filter for the ordering of vectors in a particular kernel or mask a suitable distance
measure is chosen. The vector pixels in the window are ordered on the basis of the sum of distances between
each vector pixel and the other pixels in the window. The sum of the distances is arranged in ascending order
and then the same ordering is associated with vector pixels. The vector pixel with the smallest distances is the
vector median pixel. The vector median filter is represented as
XVMF = vector median (window) (1)
If ฮดi is the sum of the distances of the ith vector pixel with all the other vectors in the kernel, then
๐ฟ ๐ = ๐๐=1 โ( ๐ฅ ๐ , ๐ฅ๐ ) (2)
where (1โค i โค N) and Xi and Xj are the vectors, N=9. โ(Xi, Xj) is the distance measure given by the L1 norm or
the city block distance which is more suited to non correlated noise. The ordering may be illustrated as
ฮด1 โค ฮด2 โค ฮด3 โค โฆ โค ฮด9 (3)
and this implies the same ordering to the corresponding vector pixels
i.e., X(1) โค X(2) โค, ...,โคX(9) (4)
where the subscripts are the ranks. Since the vector pixel with the smallest sum of distances is the vector median
pixel, it will correspond to rank 1 of the ordered pixels,
i.e., XVMF = X (1) (5)
B. Median Filter:
The Median Filter [8] as the name implies, replaces the value of the pixel by the median of the intensity
values in the neighborhood of that pixel defined in (1). The pixel with the median magnitude is used to replace
the pixel in the signal studied.
i.e.; Median Filter (x1, x2, โฆxN) = Median(x1,x2,โฆโฆ, xN) (6)
The median filter is more robust with respect to the presence of noise.
C. Center Weighted Vector Median Filter:
In the case of center weighted median filter the kernel vector pixels are assigned some non negative values
called weights. The central vector pixel is assigned a non negative weight while the weight of the neighboring
pixels is kept unity. The weights denote the number of copies is obtained. The output Y (say), of a weighted
median filter of span N (where N generally denotes the kernel size, N=9) associated with N integer weights,
W=[W1.W2โฆ..WN] (7)
Y = vector median [W1*X1, W2*X2, โฆ., W9*X9] (8)
Where the vector median [ ] denotes the vector median operation. The center weight is kept odd so that a
central element is always obtained. If the center weight has value of one then the present filter becomes a vector
median filter. If the center weight is given a value greater that the kernel size then the filter performs as an
identity filter. Larger central vector weights imply superior detail preservation and the inferior noise removal
capability as compared to smaller central weights.
D. Spatial Median Filter:
The Spatial Median Filter (SMF) [5] is a uniform smoothing algorithm with the purpose of removing noise
and fine points of image data while maintaining edges around larger shapes. The SMF is based on the spatial
median quintile function which is a L1 norm metric that measures the difference between two vectors. The
spatial depth between a point and a set of points is defined by
1 ๐ ๐โ ๐ฅ ๐
๐บ ๐ท๐๐๐ก ๐ ๐, ๐1 , ๐2 , ๐3,โฆโฆ. ๐ ๐ = 1 โ ๐ =1 (9)
๐โ1 ๐โ ๐ฅ ๐
Let r1,r2,โฆ.,rN represent X1,X2,โฆ..XN in rank order such that
โฅ SDepth(r1,X1,X2,โฆโฆXN)
โฅ SDepth(r2,X1,X2,โฆโฆXN)
โฅ SDepth(rN,X1,X2,โฆโฆXN) (10)
and let rc represent the center pixel under the mask.
Then SMF(x1, x2,โฆโฆxn )= r1 (11)
IV. Multi Sensor Image Fusion Using Qualitative Assessment
Given five de-noised images, it is required to combine the images into a single one that has all objects
without producing details that are non-existent in the given images. Here R1 is VMF median filtered image, R2 is
median filtered image, R3 is the CMF filtered image, R4 is the SMF filtered image.
The fusion algorithm consists of the following steps:
a. Input images Ri for i=1, 2, 3, 4 are divided into non-overlapping rectangular blocks with size of mxn (10x10
blocks). The jth image blocks of Ri are referred by Rij
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b.Variance (VAR) of Rij are calculated for determining the sharpness values of the corresponding blocks and the
results of Rij are denoted by VARij. VAR is defined as:
1
๐๐ด๐ = ๐ฅ ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ฅ, ๐ฆ โ ๐ ) (12)
๐ร๐
Where ๐ is the average grey level over the image.
1
๐ = ๐ ร๐ ๐ฅ ๐ฆ ๐( ๐ฅ, ๐ฆ ) (13)
c. In order to determine the sharper image block, the variances of image blocks from five images are sorted in
descending order and the same ordering is associated with image blocks. The block with the maximum variance
is kept in the fused image. The fusion mechanism is represented as follows:
If VAR (k) is the variance of block Rij, where k denotes the rank, the ordering of variances is given by
VAR(1)>VAR(2) >VAR(3) >VAR(4) >VAR(5) (14)
and this implies the same ordering to the corresponding blocks
R(1) > R (2) > R (3) > R (4) > R (5) (15)
where the subscripts are the ranks of the image blocks. Since the block with the smallest variance is in the fused
image, it will correspond to rank 1 of the ordered blocks
i.e. Fused Block = R(1) (16)
V. Qualitative Assessment Of Spatial Domain
Quality assessment of images has been successfully employed in the authentication area, such as iris
and fingerprint verification, which is used to evaluate the quality of the captured images. Fingerprint quality is
usually defined as a measure of the clarity of the ridge and valley structures. In the multi-focus image fusion, it
is the first step to investigate whether the region of the image is clarity or not, so we incorporate the quality
assessment into multi-focus image fusion algorithm. Generally speaking, the quality assessment can be
classified into two ways, namely the frequency domain assessment and the spatial domain assessment. We
incorporate the latter one into this algorithm. In order to assess the image quality in a local region, we partition a
given image into a lattice of blocks of size bxb. For each block B, let gs= ( gsx,gsy) denote the gradient of the
gray level intensity at site s๐B. The covariance matrix of the gradient vectors for all b2 sites in
1 ๐ ๐
๐ฝ = ๐ 2 ๐ โ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ = 11 12 (17)
๐21 ๐22
The above symmetric matrix is positive semi definite with Eigen values
1
๐พ1 = 2 ๐ก๐๐๐๐ ๐ฝ + ๐ก๐๐๐๐ ๐ฝ โ 4๐๐๐ก ๐ฝ (18)
1
๐พ2 = 2 ๐ก๐๐๐๐ ๐ฝ โ ๐ก๐๐๐๐ ๐ฝ โ 4๐๐๐ก ๐ฝ (19)
Where trace (J) =j11+j22, det (J) = j11j22-j12 and ๐พ1โฅ ๐พ2.
2
Quality assessment defined as
๐พ= ๐พ1-๐พ2 (20)
This measure reflects the clarity of the local region. The clearer the local region is, the bigger the measure is.
VI. Experimental Results
The performance evaluation of filtering using image fusion method is tested on the true color remote
sensing image with 290x290 pixels. The impulse noise is added into the image with different noise densities.
Here we are assuming, n=4, i.e.; 4 sensors. The noisy image is processed using a iterative filtering algorithm
based on the noise density in the image. These filtered images are fused into a single image using Quality
Assessment of Spatial Domain. The experimental results are shown in Figure 1. Table (1) shows the results of
PSNR values of fused image with different noise densities. We used the image quality metric, peak signal-to-
noise ratio (PSNR), to measure the quality of the restored image. The PSNR measure is defined as
(255 )2
๐๐๐๐ = 10 log10 MSE (21)
where MSE is the mean squared error between the original noise-free image and the restored image.
SSIM MSE PSNR
Fusion 0.99 50 29
VMF 0.93 200 25
Median Filter 0.92 220 22
Center Weighted Median Filter 0.91 650 20
Spatial Median Filter 0.90 700 18
Table 1: Performance Evaluation of Fusion Method with filter responses at 30% of noise intensity
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Fig 1: Fused Image and responses of different kinds of filters
a) Original image; b) Image with added Noise; c) Vector Median Filter; d) Center Weighted Median Filter;
e) Spatial Median Filter Image; f) Fused Image
VII. Conclusion
This paper presents a new method of image fusion technique for removal of impulse noise in images.
The images captured by sensors undergo filtering using VMF and SMF, and then the two individual de-noised
images are fused to obtain a high quality image. The Quality of the images is evaluated using Structural
Similarity Index (SSIM), Peak Signal-to-Noise ratio (PSNR) and Mean Square Error (MSE) with different noise
densities. The proposed techniques are algorithmically simple and can be used for real time imaging
applications.
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