Image enhancement using a human visual system model

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2001-2014

  Kennedy, Lesa M ^a   Basu, Mitra ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Edge detection; Edge location error; Gaussian function; Hermite function; Line weight function; Scale space

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; VISION;

HERMITE FUNCTIONS; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM MODEL; LINE WEIGHT FUNCTIONS (LWF);

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0031365001     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(97)00014-9     Document Type: Article

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