Multiscale image sharpening adaptive to edge profile

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-17

  Kotera, Hiroaki ^a   Wang, Hui ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b San Diego State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDGE PROFILE; GAUSSIAN DERIVATIVE FILTER; GAUSSIAN SMOOTHING FILTER; MULTISCALE IMAGE SHARPENING; PRESCANNING; QUALITY ASSESSMENT;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SCANNING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 20144380085     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1866147     Document Type: Article

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