A general framework for low level vision

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 310-318

  Sochen, Nir ^a   Kimmel, Ron ^b   Malladi, Ravikanth ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Color image processing; Image enhancement; Image smoothing; Nonlinear image diffusion; Scale space

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

IMAGE SMOOTHING; NONLINEAR DIFFUSION ALGORITHM; NONLINEAR IMAGE DIFFUSION; SCALE SPACE ALGORITHM;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0032024514     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.661181     Document Type: Article

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