A new image de-noising technique based on image decomposition and sigma filtering

WSEAS Transactions and Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 579-586

  Bilcu, Radu Ciprian ^a   Vehvilainen, Markku ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Image de noising; Image decomposition; Image restoration; Mean squared error; Noise estimation; Sigma filter

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL FILTERS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

IMAGE DE-NOISING; IMAGE DECOMPOSITION; MEAN SQUARED ERROR; NOISE ESTIMATION; SIGMA FILTER;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 22944482211     PISSN: 11092742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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