Combining the discrete wavelet transforms and rank-order based filters for image restoration

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 189-201

  Atourian, Samvel M ^a,b   Egiazarian, Karen O ^a,b,c,d   Gevorkian, David Z ^a,b,d,e   Astola, Jaakko T ^a,f,g,h  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Armenia)

^e TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^g KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Image restoration; Impulse removal filters; Recognition techniques; Wavelet denoising

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001412874     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601606     Document Type: Article

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