A novel Monte Carlo noise reduction operator

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 31-35

  Xu, Ruifeng ^a   Pattanaik, Sumanta N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

IMAGE DENOISING; MONTE CARLO NOISE REDUCTION;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 17144420532     PISSN: 02721716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCG.2005.31     Document Type: Article

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