SUSAN - A new approach to low level image processing

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 45-78

  Smith, Stephen M ^a,b   Brady, J Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b DRA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

NOISE REDUCTION METHOD; SUSAN PRINCIPLE;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 0031141035     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007963824710     Document Type: Article

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