Localized measurement of emergent image frequencies by gabor wavelets

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 691-712

  Bovik, Alan C ^a   Gopal, Nanda ^a   Emmoth, Tomas ^a   Restrepo, Alfredo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Gabor wavelet; generalized uncertainty principle; Image analysis; local contrast measurement; local frequency measurement; wavelets

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

GABOR WAVELETS; GENERALIZED UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE; ITERATIVE CONSTRAINT PROPAGATION ALGORITHM; LOCAL CONTRAST MEASUREMENT; LOCAL FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; TEXTURED IMAGES;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0026763627     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: 15579654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/18.119731     Document Type: Article

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