Adaptive Color Image Filtering Based on Center-Weighted Vector Directional Filters

Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Lukac, Rastislav ^a  

^a Slovak Image Processing Center   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Adaptive nonlinear filtering; Impulsive noise; Multichannel image filtering; Vector directional processing of color images; Weighted angular distance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); IMAGE QUALITY; IMPULSE NOISE; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; VECTORS;

ADAPTIVE NONLINEAR FILTERING; MULTICHANNEL IMAGE FILTERING; VECTOR DIRECTIONAL PROCESSING OF COLOR IMAGES; WEIGHTED ANGULAR DISTANCE;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING;

EID: 12144290329     PISSN: 09236082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MULT.0000017024.66297.a0     Document Type: Article

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