Random-valued impulse noise removal by the adaptive switching median detectors and detail-preserving regularization

This paper firstly proposes an adaptive non-local switching median filter. Then, a two-phase scheme is presented to remove the random-valued impulse noise. In the first phase, the adaptive switching median filter or the adaptive non-local switching median filter is used to identify the pixels which are likely to be the noise candidates. In the second phase, only the noise candidates' values are restored by a detail-preserving regularization method. Simulation results show that the proposed method is significantly superior to some of the state-of-the-art methods. (C) 2013 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.