A cubic unsharp masking technique for contrast enhancement

Signal Processing

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 211-222

  Ramponi, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Image enhancement; Image processing; Nonlinear filtering; Unsharp Masking

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

NONLINEAR FILTERING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0032089920     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1684(98)00038-3     Document Type: Article

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