Adaptive Motion-Compensated Filtering of Noisy Image Sequences

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 277-290

  Özkan, Mehmet K ^a   Sezan, M Ibrahim ^b   Tekalp, A Murat ^c  

^a Thomson Consumer Electronics Inc   (United States)

^b EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; IMAGE PROCESSING; TELEVISION EQUIPMENT;

ADAPTIVE MOTION-COMPENSATED FILTERING; ADAPTIVE SPATIOTEMPORAL FILTER; NOISY IMAGE SEQUENCE FILTERING;

TELEVISION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0027646923     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: 15582205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/76.257217     Document Type: Article

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