Automatic enhancement of noisy images using objective evaluation of image quality

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1600-1606

  Russo, Fabrizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gaussian noise; Image edge analysis; Image enhancement; Nonlinear filters; Parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL FILTERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

GAUSSIAN NOISE; IMAGE EDGE ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR FILTERS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 23344453982     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2005.851084     Document Type: Article

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