Neural Edge Enhancer for Supervised Edge Enhancement from Noisy Images

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1582-1596

  Suzuki, Kenji ^a   Horiba, Isao ^b   Sugie, Noboru ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b AICHI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contour extraction; Edge detection; Neural network; Noisy image; Robustness; Supervised edge enhancer

Indexed keywords

NOISY IMAGES; SUPERVISED EDGE ENHANCER;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NEURAL NETWORKS; NONLINEAR FILTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 0348011365     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2003.1251151     Document Type: Article

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