0.8 μm CMOS Implementation of Weighted-Order Statistic Image Filter Based on Cellular Neural Network Architecture

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1366-1374

  Kowalski, Jacek ^a  

^a LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Application specific integrated circuit (ASIC); Cellular neural networks; Image processing; Nonlinear filtering

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; NONLINEAR FILTERING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

CIRCUIT REPRESENTATION; NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0242611582     PISSN: 10459227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNN.2003.816384     Document Type: Article

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