Block-median pyramidal transform: Analysis and denoising applications

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 364-372

  Melnik, Vladimir P ^a   Shmulevich, Ilya ^a   Egiazarian, Karen ^a   Astola, Jaakko ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERPOLATION; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BLOCK-MEDIAN PYRAMIDAL TRANSFORMS (BMPT); DENOISING TECHNIQUES; MEDIAN-INTERPOLATING PYRAMID TRANSFORMS (MIPT);

NONLINEAR FILTERING;

EID: 0035249389     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.902119     Document Type: Article

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