A Combination Approach to Noise Reduction in Digital Image Processing

In order to reduce Gaussian and Salt & Pepper noises, a combination approach to noise reduction is presented by combining the median filter with the mean filter. The detail simulations show that the mode which the median filtering first and then the mean filtering is superior to that of the simply single filtering, or the mean filtering first and then the median filtering when the image obviously contain the Salt & Pepper noise. On the other hand, it is not necessarily the optimal scheme to use the mode which the mean filtering first and then the median filtering when the digital image obviously contains the Gaussian noise.