Noise Reduction Filters for Dynamic Image Sequences: A Review

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 1995, Pages 1272-1292

  Brailean, James C ^a   Kleihorst, Richard P ^b,c   Efstratiadis, Serafim ^d   Katsaggelos, Aggelos K ^e   Lagendijk, Reginald L ^b  

^a MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL FILTERS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DYNAMIC IMAGE SEQUENCES; NOISE REDUCTION FILTERS; VIDEO SEQUENCES;

SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

EID: 0029378990     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.406412     Document Type: Article

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