Design and real-time implementation of a low-cost noise reduction system for video applications

Signal Processing

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 453-466

  Tenze, Livio ^a   Carrato, Sergio ^a   Olivieri, Stefano ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

DSP; Real time implementation; Video noise reduction; Video temporal filtering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FIR FILTERS; IIR FILTERS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION COMPENSATION; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NOISE ABATEMENT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DSP; SPATIO-TEMPORAL FILTERING; VIDEO NOISE REDUCTION; VIDEO TEMPORAL FILTERING;

SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0742319223     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2003.11.011     Document Type: Article

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