Agro Image De Noising (Aid) for Enhanced Agricultural Images

Abstract

Several Noises may be present in acquired images. This is an undesired feature for image processing techniques that analyze these images. Image de-noising helps improve efficiency of image processing. Many image de-noising methods have been proposed and exist in literature. Image de-noising methods for agricultural images have been proposed to a lesser extent when compared to the bright medical or photographic images. This paper proposes Agricultural Image De-noising (AID) which uses a discrete wavelet transform (DWT) to eliminate noise in agricultural images. This study uses specific kind of wavelet family spline wavelet transforms with appropriate decomposition level and the wavelet coefficients are analysed with hard and soft threshold methods. The denoised image using various spline wavelets is compared of hard threshold and soft threshold are assessed. The performance of AID is calculated using the peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and signal to noise ratio (SNR).