Adaptive template filter method for image processing based on immune genetic algorithm

• Published in: Journal of Central South University of Technology. Science & technology of mining and metallurgy 2010-10, Vol.17 (5), p.1028-1035
• Main Authors: Tan, Guan-zheng, Wu, Jian-hua, Fan, Bi-shuang, Jiang, Bin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Engineering; Metallic Materials
• ISSN: 1005-9784; 1993-0666
• DOI: 10.1007/s11771-010-0594-1

To preserve the original signal as much as possible and filter random noises as many as possible in image processing, a threshold optimization-based adaptive template filtering algorithm was proposed. Unlike conventional filters whose template shapes and coefficients were fixed, multi-templates were defined and the right template for each pixel could be matched adaptively based on local image characteristics in the proposed method. The superiority of this method was verified by former results concerning the matching experiment of actual image with the comparison of conventional filtering methods. The adaptive search ability of immune genetic algorithm with the elitist selection and elitist crossover (IGAE) was used to optimize threshold t of the transformation function, and then combined with wavelet transformation to estimate noise variance. Multi-experiments were performed to test the validity of IGAE. The results show that the filtered result of t obtained by IGAE is superior to that of t obtained by other methods, IGAE has a faster convergence speed and a higher computational efficiency compared with the canonical genetic algorithm with the elitism and the immune algorithm with the information entropy and elitism by multi-experiments.