Smoothing of digital images using the concept of diffusion process

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 497-510

  Biswas, Sambhunath ^a   Pal, Nikhil R ^a   Pal, Sankar K ^a,b,c,d  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive smoothing; Edge stretching; Isotropic anisotropic diffusion; Quality index; Topography index

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; ITERATIVE METHODS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ADAPTIVE SMOOTHING; ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; EDGE STRETCHING; ISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; QUALITY INDEX; TOPOGRAPHY INDEX;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 0030108486     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-3203(94)00093-X     Document Type: Article

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