Exact distribution of edge-preserving MAP estimators for linear signal models with Gaussian measurement noise

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1049-1055

  Fessler, Jeffrey A ^a,b   Erdoǧan, Hakan ^a,c   Wu, Wei Biao ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN METHODS; EDGE PRESERVING ESTIMATORS; GAUSSIAN MEASUREMENT NOISE; LINEAR SIGNAL MODELS; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI ESTIMATORS;

EDGE DETECTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0033690449     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.846247     Document Type: Article

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