Noise estimation in spherical coordinates for color image restoration

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1-9

  Hore, E S ^a   Qiu, B ^a   Wu, H R ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive filter; Color image restoration; Noise estimation; Order statistics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VECTORS;

COLOR IMAGE RESTORATION; NOISE ESTIMATION; ORDER STATISTICS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 22944487598     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1883696     Document Type: Article

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