A method for blind automatic evaluation of noise variance in images based on bootstrap and myriad operations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5982, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Lukin, Vladimir V ^a   Abramov, Sergey K ^a   Vozel, Benoit ^b   Chehdi, Kasem ^b  

^a NATIONAL AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Blind variance evaluation; Bootstrap; Multichannel images

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BLIND VARIANCE EVALUATION; BOOTSTRAP; MULTICHANNEL IMAGES;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION;

EID: 33644560305     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.626446     Document Type: Conference Paper

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