A robust structure-adaptive hybrid vector filter for color image restoration

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1990-2001

  Ma, Zhonghua ^a,b   Wu, Hong Ren ^a,c   Qiu, Bin ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive vector filtering; Digital color image restoration; Modified quadtree decomposition; Structure adaptive hybrid vector filter

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY;

ADAPTIVE VECTOR FILTERING; DIGITAL COLOR IMAGE RESTORATION; IMAGE FILTERING ALGORITHMS; MODIFIED QUADTREE DECOMPOSITION; STRUCTURE-ADAPTIVE HYBRID VECTOR FILTER;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 28844483452     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2005.857269     Document Type: Article

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