An Area Efficient Denoising Architecture Using Adaptive Rank Order Filter

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Volume-1                         
Year of Publication : 2014
Authors :N.Sathya

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N.Sathya, "An Area Efficient Denoising Architecture Using Adaptive Rank Order Filter", International Journal of Recent Engineering Science (IJRES),V1(1):11-15 July 2014. ISSN:XXXX-XXXX. www.ijresonline.com. Published by IJRES.

Abstract—Noises are occurs in an images during the process of acquisition and transmission. Image denoising is a process of removing noises from an corrupted images while preserving the details of an image. In existing an decision tree based denoising scheme (DTBDM) and its VLSI architecture is used to remove the impulse noise. The DTBDM consists of two components such as decision-tree-based impulse detector and edge-preserving image filter,these two components are used to detect and remove the noise in an image but this architecture consumes large area.Adaptive rank order filter architecture is proposed to remove the noises and also to reduce area of an architecture.

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Keywords-Adaptive rank order filter, DTBDM, Image denoising, VLSI architecture.