A Bayesian approach for the median filter in image processing

Signal Processing

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 303-309

  Sebastiani, Giovanni ^a,b   Stramaglia, Sebastiano ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Image approximation; Median filter; Stochastic optimization

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BAYESIAN METHOD; IMAGE APPROXIMATION; MEDIAN FILTERS (MF); REAL BINARY IMAGES;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0031273726     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1684(97)00131-x     Document Type: Article

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