Improvement of the Traditional Canny Edge Detection Algorithm by using Combination of Arithmetic Mean Filter, Harmonic Mean Filter and Geometric Mean Filter

Abstract

Canny Edge Detection Algorithm was very popular on the computer vision area which used to preserve the edges of the image. Due to the defect of the Canny Edge Detection Algorithm like no efficiency on noise removal, some improvement on the Canny Edge Detection Algorithm was done by the researchers. On this paper, a new enhanced Canny Edge Detection Algorithm will be propose which replaces the Gaussian Filter with combination of Arithmetic Mean Filter, Harmonic Mean Filter and Geometric Mean Filter. The replace of Gaussian Filter with combination of Arithmetic Mean Filter, Harmonic Mean Filter and Geometric Mean Filter is to improve the performance of Canny Edge Detection Algorithm on noise removal. A comparison between Canny Edge Detection Algorithm proposed by this paper, Canny Edge Detection Algorithm proposed by (Ilkin, Tafralı, &Sahin, 2017) and traditional Canny Edge Detection Algorithm will be done. The comparison will done by using eight images with different type and size which corrupted by noise. The performance of three algorithms will be determined by using the Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (henceforth, PSNR) value which uses as a quantitative measure. From the result, the Canny Edge Detection proposed by this paper will provide a better performance on noise removal and which will give a better impact on preserve the edges of the images corrupted by noise.