Combining spatial and scale-space techniques for edge detection to provide a spatially adaptive wavelet-based noise filtering algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1062-1071

  Faghih, Farshad ^a,b,c   Smith, Michael ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c NORTEL NETWORKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Edge detection; Fuzzy logic; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE WAVELET-BASED NOISE FILTERING ALGORITHM; SCALE-SPACE TECHNIQUES;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PROBABILITY; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 0036709343     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2002.802526     Document Type: Article

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