A New Class of Detail-Preserving Filters for Image Processing

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn PAMI-9, Issue 1, 1987, Pages 74-90

  Nieminen, Ari ^a   Heinonen, Pekka ^a   Neuvo, Yl ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Image restoration; median filters; nonlinear filters

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

MEDIAN FILTERS; NONLINEAR FILTERS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0023145542     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.1987.4767873     Document Type: Article

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