A maximum likelihood estimate for two-variable fractal surface

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1746-1753

  Balghonaim, Adil S ^a   Keller, James M ^b  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractal dimension; Fractional Brownian motion; Maximum likelihood; Parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

FRACTAL SURFACES;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT;

EID: 0032296812     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.730389     Document Type: Article

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