New bit-level algorithm for general purpose median filtering

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 263-269

  Benkrid, Khaled ^a   Crookes, Danny ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT LEVEL ALGORITHM; BUBBLE SORT TECHNIQUE; CONFIGURABLE LOGIC BLOCKS; MEDIAN FILTERING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; OPTIMIZATION; SORTING;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0037721341     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1557153     Document Type: Article

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