A Fast Parallel Algorithm for Blind Estimation of Noise Variance

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 216-223

  Meer, Peter ^a   Jolion, Jean Michel ^b   Rosenfeld, Azriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Image pyramids; noise estimation; order statistics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS, DIGITAL--PARALLEL PROCESSING; NOISE, SPURIOUS SIGNAL--ESTIMATION; VISION--ARTIFICIAL;

BLIND NOISE VARIANCE ALGORITHM; IMAGE PYRAMIDS; NOISE ESTIMATION; ORDER STATISTICS; TESSELLATIONS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0025388423     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.44408     Document Type: Article

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