Adaptive nonlocal filtering: a fast alternative to anisotropic diffusion for image enhancement

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 42-48

  Fischl, Bruce ^a   Schwartz, Eric L ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Diffusion; Filtering; Nonlinear diffusion; Nonlocal filter; Permutation filter; Scale space; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ADAPTIVE NONLOCAL FILTERING; ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; PERMUTATION FILTER;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0032784869     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.745732     Document Type: Article

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