A common framework for nonlinear diffusion, adaptive smoothing, bilateral filtering and mean shift

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 73-81

  Barash, Danny ^a,c   Comaniciu, Dorin ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adaptive smoothing; Bilateral filtering; Mean shift procedure; Nonlinear diffusion

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; STATISTICS;

ADAPTIVE SMOOTHING TECHNIQUE; BILATERAL FILTERING; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; MEAN SHIFT PROCEDURE; NONLINEAR DIFFUSION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0346118745     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2003.08.005     Document Type: Article

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