Adaptive nonlinear filters for 2D and 3D image enhancement

Signal Processing

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 237-254

  Guillon, Sébastien ^a   Baylou, Pierre ^a   Najim, Mohamed ^a   Keskes, Naamen ^b  

^a Equipe Sign Image ENSERB GDR I   (France)

^b TOTAL   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive filtering; Edge sharpening; Image enhancement; Nonlinear filtering

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL FILTERS; HIGH PASS FILTERS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LOW PASS FILTERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

EDGE SHARPENING;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING;

EID: 0032090458     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1684(98)00042-5     Document Type: Article

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