Nonlinear filtering for phase image denoising

IEE Proceedings: Vision, Image and Signal Processing

Volumn 149, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 290-296

  Lorenzo Ginori, J V ^a   Plataniotis, K N ^b   Venetsanopoulos, A N ^b  

^a CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF LAS VILLAS   (Cuba)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NOISE ABATEMENT; NONLINEAR FILTERING; PHASE MODULATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

NORMALISED MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PHASE IMAGE DENOISING; VECTOR FILTERING;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036816952     PISSN: 1350245X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-vis:20020626     Document Type: Article

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