Adaptive-neighborhood filtering of images corrupted by signal-dependent noise

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 4477-4487

  Rangayyan, Rangaraj M ^a   Ciuc, Mihai ^a   Faghih, Farshad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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EID: 0000244081     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.004477     Document Type: Article

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