An image enhancement technique combining sharpening and noise reduction

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 824-828

  Russo, Fabrizio ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fuzzy neural networks; Image enhancement; Image processing; Nonlinear filters

Indexed keywords

FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS; NONLINEAR FILTERS; SHARPENING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY SETS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; NEURAL NETWORKS;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 0036703461     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2002.803394     Document Type: Article

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