TY - JOUR T1 - First Order Difference Equation Implementation for Image Filtering AU - , Ismail A. Ismail AU - , Nabawia El-Ramly AU - , Mohammed Amin AU - , Hani M. Ibrahim JO - International Journal of Soft Computing VL - 2 IS - 1 SP - 176 EP - 181 PY - 2007 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1816-9503 DO - ijscomp.2007.176.181 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ijscomp.2007.176.181 KW - Control system KW -controllability KW -gaussian noise KW -image filtering KW -observability KW -stability AB - This study introduces an image filtering algorithm for degraded images with Gaussian noise. The stability, observability and controllability concepts from automatic control are formalized for evaluating image quality. The implementation of the developed algorithm is mainly based on first order difference equation. The proposed scheme is applied to gray scale and color degraded images by Gaussian noise. We also give a comparison between the proposed scheme and lowpass filtering technique. The results indicate that our method gives good performance with smoothing the background noise while preserving the edges and the fine details with less bullring, for gray scale and color images rather than the performance of lowpass filter. ER -