A morphological filtering algorithm research for neighbor noise

The suspicious noise points are taken as center to construct a certain size neighborhood in this paper. Morphological close filtering is performed by pepper noise neighborhood. Then, morphological open filtering is applied by neighborhood salt noise point. The gray values of suspected noise points are replaced by filtered gray value of neighborhood center point. During the transforming process, gray values of non-suspicious noise points remain unchanged. Experiments show that this scheme is practical and plausible. The filtered image has advantages of less mean square error and high peak signal-to-noise ratio. Compared with the median filtering algorithm, the morphological open-close filtering algorithm，and the adaptive filtering algorithm, this proposed improved algorithm provides a better filtering property.