Realization of rank order filters based on majority gate

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1571-1576

  Gasteratos, A ^a   Andreadis, I ^a   Tsalides, Ph ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Nonlinear filters

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

RANK ORDER FILTERS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031237483     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(96)00170-7     Document Type: Article

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