Median Filtering

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"Salt-and-pepper" noise is present in many video images. It not only looks bad, but it can lead recognition algorithms astray.

One method for eliminating salt-and-pepper noise is to replace each pixel value by the median of the 9 values in its 3 by 3 neighborhood.

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