TY - JFULL AU - Umesh Ghanekar PY - 2008/3/ TI - A Novel Impulse Detector for Filtering of Highly Corrupted Images T2 - International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering SP - 384 EP - 388 VL - 2 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9534 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 14, 2008 N2 - As the performance of the filtering system depends upon the accuracy of the noise detection scheme, in this paper, we present a new scheme for impulse noise detection based on two levels of decision. In this scheme in the first stage we coarsely identify the corrupted pixels and in the second stage we finally decide whether the pixel under consideration is really corrupt or not. The efficacy of the proposed filter has been confirmed by extensive simulations. ER -