Bhattacharyya distance as a contrast parameter for statiscal processing of noisy optical images

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1231-1240

  Goudail, François ^a   Réfrégier, Philippe ^a   Delyon, Guillaume ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL OPTICS;

BHATTACHARYYA DISTANCE; CONTRAST PARAMETER; FISHER RATIO; KULLBACK DIVERGENCE; OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM; SPECKLE NOISE;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 3142705035     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.21.001231     Document Type: Article

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