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Noise in the form of sparse, random black and white pixels on digital images
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An image with salt-and-pepper noise

Salt-and-pepper noise, also known as impulse noise, is a form of noise sometimes seen on digital images. For black-and-white or grayscale images, is presents as sparsely occurring white and black pixels, giving the appearance of an image sprinkled with salt and pepper.

Cause

Salt-and-pepper noise can be caused by sharp and sudden disturbances in the image signal. These may be from transmission errors, corrupted pixel elements in the camera sensors, or faulty memory locations in the storage media.

Removal

An effective noise reduction method for this type of noise is a median filter or a morphological filter. For reducing either salt noise or pepper noise, but not both, a contraharmonic mean filter can be effective.

Linear filters are generally ineffective for removing impulse noise.

See also

References

  1. ^ Alajlan, Naif; Mohamed, Kamel; Jernigan, Ed (November 2004). "Detail preserving impulsive noise removal". Signal Processing: Image Communication. 19 (10): 993–1003. Retrieved 29 Nov 2024.
  2. Jayaraman; et al. (2009). Digital Image Processing. Tata McGraw-Hill Education. p. 272. ISBN 9781259081439.
  3. Rosin, Paul; Collomosse, John (2012). Image and Video-Based Artistic Stylisation. Springer Publishing. p. 92. ISBN 9781447145196.
  4. Marques, Oge (2011). Practical Image and Video Processing Using MATLAB. Wiley. pp. 275–76. ISBN 9781118093481.


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