The nonlinear statistics of high-contrast patches in natural images

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 54, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 83-103

  Lee, Ann B ^a   Pedersen, Kim S ^b   Mumford, David ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Clutter; Geometrically based statistics; High dimensional probability density estimation; Higher order statistics; Microimages; Natural image statistics; Non linear sparse coding; Pixel based image models

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL FLOWS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

GEOMETRICALLY BASED STATISTICS; HIGH-CONTRAST PATCHES; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL PROBABILITY DENSITY ESTIMATION; MICROIMAGES; NATURAL IMAGE STATISTICS; NON-LINEAR SPARSE CODING; PIXEL-BASED IMAGE MODELS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0141853951     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1023705401078     Document Type: Article

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