The Effect of Median Filtering on Edge Estimation and Detection

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn PAMI-9, Issue 2, 1987, Pages 181-194

  Bovik, Alan Conrad ^a   Huang, Thomas S ^a   Munson, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer vision; edge detection; image processing; median filter; order statistics

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY; VISION - ARTIFICIAL;

COMPUTER VISION; MEDIAN FILTERING; ORDER STATISTICS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0023310315     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.1987.4767894     Document Type: Article

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