Image Relaxation: Restoration and Feature Extraction

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 620-624

  Snyder, Wesley ^a   Bilbro, Griff ^a   Han, Youn Sik ^b   Whitaker, Ross ^c   Pizer, Stephen ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

anisotropic diffusion; Graduated nonconvexity; image optimization; mean field annealing

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; BAYES' RULE; BIASED ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; GRADUATED NONCONVEXITY; IMAGE RELAXATION; MEAN FIELD ANNEALING; POSTERIOR CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY; VARIABLE CONDUCTANCE DIFFUSION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0029322493     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.387509     Document Type: Letter

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