Rapid Anisotropic Diffusion Using Space-Variant Vision

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 199-212

  Fischl, Bruce ^a   Cohen, Michael A ^a   Schwartz, Eric L ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Complex log map; Image enhancement; Polar exponential grid; Space variant vision

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; COMPLEX LOG MAP; POLAR EXPONENTIAL GRID; SPACE-VARIANT VISION;

ANISOTROPY; GREEN'S FUNCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; DIFFUSION; EFFICIENCY; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

COMPUTER VISION;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0032117793     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008043919667     Document Type: Article

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