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Image averaging for impulse noise

asked Apr 26 '16

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Hello,

Why does image averaging ( taking the average of many images ) not work for impulse noise ? I understand the mathematics of why it works for gaussian noise. Since we can treat the noisy image as an addition of the original image with the noise, image averaging reduces the variance.

But why can't it work for impulse noise ? Would it be because there is no mathematical way of showing the addition of impulse noise to the original image ?

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answered Apr 27 '16

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The best way to remove impulse noise is using median type filtering.

If you want mathematical approach to deal with impulse noise (verify why it won't be eliminated with averaging), consider it as a Dirac signal and check its Fourier transform. Compare it with the Fourier transform of a Gaussian noise.

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