Adaptive image noise filtering using transform domain local statistics

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2290-2296

  Choy, Steven S O ^a   Chan, Yuk Hee ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Siu, Wan Chi ^{a,b,d,e,g,h,i}  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c Elec and Eltek Group   (Hong Kong)

^d Chinese University of Hong Kong ^*

^e IEEE   (Hong Kong)

^f IEE   (Hong Kong)

^g IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h Engineering Faculty

ⁱ Phys Sciences and Engineering Panel   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive linear minimum mean square error estimation; Decorrelation; Image noise smoothing; Image restoration; Local statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000996918     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601750     Document Type: Article

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