Effective neural LUM smoother for image smoothing applications
Rastislav Lukàč · Machine Graphics & Vision International Journal archive · 2003
In this paper, an effective image filtering approach for the impulsive noise suppression with the simultaneous signal-detail preservation is presented. The novelty of the proposed method lies in the combination of the LUM (lower-upper-middle) smoothing characteristics and the neural network. The included LUM-based impulse detector improves the signal-detail preservation capability of the proposed method, whereas the neural network along with the input LUM smoothers guarantee its noise attenuation capability. Since the LUM operation can be very efficiently implemented, the proposed method is computationally attractive and useful for practical image filtering applications.