Center Weighted Median Filters and Their Applications to Image Enhancement

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 1991, Pages 984-993

  Ko, Sung Jea ^a   Lee, Yong Hoon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

CENTER WEIGHTED MEDIAN FILTERS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0026222410     PISSN: 00984094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/31.83870     Document Type: Article

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