Removal of Salt and Pepper Noise through Unsymmetric Trimmed Median Filter

Here a modified decision based unsymmetrical trimmed median filter algorithm for the restoration of gray scale, and colour images that are highly corrupted by salt and pepper noise is proposed. This algorithm replaces the noisy pixel by trimmed median value when other pixel values, 0’s and 255’s are present in the selected window and when all the pixel values are 0’s and 255’s then the noise pixel is replaced by mean value of all the elements present in the selected window. This proposed algorithm shows better results than the Standard Median Filter (MF), Decision Based Algorithm (DBA), Modified Decision Based Algorithm (MDBA), and Progressive Switched Median Filter (PSMF). The proposed algorithm is tested against different gray scale and colour images and it gives better Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Image Enhancement Factor (IEF).