An RBFN–Wiener hybrid filter using higher order signal statistics

In this paper we propose a radial basis function network (RBFN) based nonlinear filter with a basic framework of a linear Wiener filter. In addition, in order to improve the filtering performance, we further propose a novel nonlinear filter, which is synthesized by a hybridization of an RBFN filter and a linear Wiener filter. The proposed filters are realized with a least mean square error scheme using higher order statistics of a target signal and an observation noise. The validity and the effectiveness of the proposed filters have been verified by applying them to the actual filtering problems of the noisy images.