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Introduction and Review

``Noise' can be introduced into a digitized image in many ways,starting with the lens of the imaging hardwareand ending at the digitization of the captured image. The reduction of noisewithout degradation of the underlying image has attracted muchattention in the past. However, whilst many ``structure preserving'filters have achieved some degree of success at preserving onedimensional image structure, very few have successfully preserved twodimensional image brightness structure, such as corners and junctions.

This section describes the SUSAN noise filteringalgorithm. This uses local measurements to obtain noise reductionwhilst preserving both one and two dimensional image structure. Themethod is based on image region determination using a non-rigid (infact, spatially undetermined) region model.

The simplest noise reduction method is the sliding mean or box filter (see [35]). Each pixel value is replaced bythe mean of its local neighbours. The Gaussian filter is similarto the box filter, except that the values of the neighbouring pixelsare given different weighting, that being defined by a spatialGaussian distribution. The Gaussian filter is probably the most widelyused noise reducing filter. It has been incorporated into the designof many algorithms such as the Canny edge detector (see[9]). The Gaussian filter is pleasing because Fourieranalysis shows that the Gaussian spatial distribution gives a Gaussianfrequency distribution, leading to a good (often described as``optimal') tradeoff between localization in the spatial and in thefrequency domains. The sharp cutoff of the box filter causes it togive a noisier output than the Gaussian (see the discussion in[9]) corresponding to a less well localized frequencyresponse.

More complicated ``optimal' statistical estimators have been derivedwhich use local means and autocorrelation functions to calculate theunderlying signal (for example Wiener filtering -- see[49]). However, these methods are usually very slow.

Linear filters such as the box and the Gaussian filters tend to createmore blurring of image details than do most non-linear filters. Anincrease in their ability to smooth noise corresponds to an increasein the blurring effect.

Many non-linear filters fall into the category of order statisticneighbour operators. This means that the local neighbours are sortedinto ascending order (according to their value) and this list isprocessed to give an estimate of the underlying image brightness. Thesimplest order statistic operator is the median (see[69]), where the central value in the ordered list is usedfor the new value of the brightness. The median filter is much betterat preserving straight edge structure than Gaussian smoothing, but ifthe edge is curved then image degradation occurs. At corners, othertwo dimensional features and thin lines the median does not performwell with regard to structure preservation. The median is good atreducing impulse noise (for example ``salt and pepper' noise) wherethe noisy pixels contain no information about their original values.

There have been several variations on the median filter, for examplethe weighted median filter (see [7]) selectivelygives the neighbouring pixels multiple entries to the ordered list,usually with the centre pixels of the neighbourhood contributing moreentries. The higher the weighting given to the central pixel, thebetter the filter is at preserving corners, but the less the smoothingeffect is. At corners, other pixels within the convex image regionincluding the centre pixel are not given any higher weighting thanthose outside, so this is an ineffective way of preserving the cornerstructure. Other methods include the contrast-dependentthresholded median (see [55]), adaptive decimatedmedian filtering (see [1]) and the midrangeestimator (see [2]), which places the brightness estimatehalfway between the maximum and minimum local brightness values.

Three similar filters, the first two of which are typical of morecomplicated order statistic operators, are the K-nearestneighbour operator (see [13]), the -trimmedmean (see [5]) and the sigma filter (see[30]). The K-nearest neighbour operator takes the mean ofthe K nearest neighbours from within the ordered list. The valuewhich K is usually set to (5 or 6 when a 3 by 3 mask is used) meansthat corners and thin lines are badly corrupted. The trimmed meanoperator takes the mean of the remaining entries in the ordered listonce the first and last entries in the list (originallycontaining N entries) have been thrown away. The sigma filter takesan average of only those neighbouring pixels whose values lie within of the central pixel value, where is found once forthe whole image. This attempts to average a pixel with only thoseneighbours which have values ``close' to it, compared with the imagenoise standard deviation.

The peak noise filter is specifically designed to remove impulseor peak noise. A pixel's value is compared with the local mean. If itis close then the value remains unchanged. If it is very differentthen the pixel's value is replaced by the local mean. A more advancedversion of this takes a weighted mean of the central value and thelocal mean, the weighting depending on the difference between thesetwo quantities and also on the local brightness variance. This issimilar to the contrast-dependent thresholded median filter, andagain, is not very good at structure preservation.

In [47] Perona and Malik use local image gradient tocontrol anisotropic diffusion; smoothing is prevented fromcrossing edges. This is, in a sense, an opposite approach to theK-nearest neighbour, sigma and SUSAN filters, which work out whichneighbours to include in smoothing; anisotropic diffusion works outwhich neighbours to exclude. In [54] Saint-Marc et al. ``refine and generalize' the approach of Perona and Malik,using many iterations of a 3 by 3 mask which weights a mean of theneighbours' values according to the edge gradient found at eachneighbours' position. This method shall be referred to as the SMCMfilter. Because pixels both sides of an edge have high gradientassociated with them, thin lines and corners are degraded by thisprocess. This problem is also true with Perona and Malik's method. Biased Anisotropic Diffusion (see [44]) usesphysical diffusion models to inhibit smoothing across boundaries,according to a cost functional which attempts to minimize acombination of desired components. These individual costs are imagesmoothness and quality of fit between original and smoothed image.This type of approach is similar to the weak membrane model (see[6]) which fits a membrane to the image surface, allowingit to ``break' at significant discontinuities, incurring a cost,which is balanced against the ``badness of fit' cost. This methodtends to be very computationally expensive.

Specific surface model fitting techniques have been developed;for example, in [59] a two stage surface fitting method isused. In the first stage a moving least median of squares of errors ofa fit to planar facets is used. This is similar to a least meansquares fit to a plane, but uses the median of the errors instead ofthe mean so that discontinuities are correctly fitted. However,corners are rounded, as with the standard median smoothing; this isexpected, and can be clearly seen in the results presented. The secondstage fits a weighted bicubic spline to the output of t