TY  - JOUR
T1  - Two-Stage Quaternion Vector Median Filter for
Removing Impulse Noise in Color Images
AU - Chanu, P. Roji AU - Manglem Singh, Kh. 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 15
IS  - 2
SP  - 350
EP  - 364
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2020.350.364
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2020.350.364
KW  - Quaternion
KW  -chromaticity
KW  -convolution
KW  -impulse
KW  -laplacian
KW  -vector median
AB  - This study presents a novel two-stage filtering algorithm for removing impulse noise in color images.
Quaternion theory is used to represent the intensity and chromaticity differences of two color pixels. Use of
quaternion treats color pixels as vectors and processes color images as single unit rather than as separated color
components. This preserves the existing correlation and three dimensional vector natures of the color channels.
In the first stage of noise detection, the color pixels are sorted and assigned a rank based on the aggregated sum
of color pixel differences with other pixels inside the filtering window. The central pixel is considered as
probably corrupted by an impulse if its rank is bigger than a predefined rank. In the second stage, the probably
corrupted candidate is again checked for an edge or an impulse by using four Laplacian convolution kernels.
If the minimum difference of these four convolution is larger than a predefined threshold, then the central pixel
is regarded as an impulse. The noisy pixel is replaced by output of weighted vector median filter implemented
using the quaternion distance. More weight is assigned to those pixels belonging to the direction of minimum
difference. Experimental results indicate the improved performance of the proposed filter in suppressing the
impulse noise while retaining the original image details comparing against other well-known filters.
ER  -