Statistical properties of local extrema in two-dimensional gaussian random fields

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 130-140

  Oakley, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extreme value distribution; Gaussian process; Image processing; Matched filter; Statistics; Stochastic fields

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL FILTERS; PERFORMANCE; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

RANDOM FIELDS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0031678523     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.651198     Document Type: Article

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