Abstract
Noise interference during the acquisition of digital images can severely degrade image quality, particularly for images captured under low-light conditions; however, the removal of image noise requires sophisticated digital image processing systems. This study presents a hardware-based solution to real-time image denoising using an existing algorithm designed for the removal of mixed impulse noise (salt-and-pepper and random-valued impulse noise), while preserving image edge details and image borders, without the need for additional computation time or memory capacity. Note that mixed impulse noise is typical of most real-world situations, such as the video noise associated with dashboard cameras. The proposed design was implemented using 180 nm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology, consuming only 21.7 mW when operated at 200 MHz. This operating frequency allows the proposed chip to process noisy video streams with resolution of <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$1920\mathbf {\times }1080$ </tex-math></inline-formula> at 60 frames per second in real time. In terms of image restoration, the proposed algorithm achieved image quality on par with that achieved using software simulation. We also demonstrated the efficacy of the proposed scheme in denoising noisy video images from a dashboard camera.
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