A note on two classical enhancement filters and their associated PDE's

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 52, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 153-160

  Guichard, Frédéric ^a   Morel, Jean Michel ^b  

^a Poseidon Technologies   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Deblurring filters; Enhancement filters; PDE; Shock filters

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL FILTERS; EDGE DETECTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

CANNY EDGE DETECTOR; DEBLURRING FILTERS; ENHANCEMENT FILTERS; RUDIN-OSHER FILTER; SHOCK FILTERS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0038005409     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022904124348     Document Type: Article

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