A new switching vector median filter using ranked thresholds is proposed to remove the impulsive noise from color images. The new method utilizes thresholds related rank position of the central pixel in filtering window and the distance between the output of the classic vector median filter and the original vector to determine the noise probability. Compared with other non-switching and switching vector median filters

simulation experiments show that the new filter outperforms them in terms of both noise suppression and detail preservation.