Modified curvature motion for image smoothing and enhancement

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 345-352

  Yezzi Jr , Anthony ^a,b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Enhancement; Mean curvature; Partial differential equations; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; GEOMETRY; GRAPH THEORY; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; VECTORS;

IMAGE SMOOTHING;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0032022520     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.661184     Document Type: Article

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