A general framework for quadratic Volterra filters for edge enhancement

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 950-963

  Thurnhofer, Stefan ^a,b   Mitra, Sanjit K ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AMPLIFICATION; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; HIGH PASS FILTERS; IMAGE QUALITY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

EDGE ENHANCEMENT; FOUR DIMENSIONAL FREQUENCY RESPONSE; IMAGE BRIGHTNESS; QUADRATIC VOLTERRA FILTERS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0030167752     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.503911     Document Type: Article

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