Two-stage false contour detection using directional contrast features and its application to adaptive false contour reduction

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 179-188

  Lee, Ji Won ^a   Lim, Bo Ra ^a   Park, Rae Hong ^a   Kim, Jae Seung ^b   Ahn, Wonseok ^b  

^a Sogang University   (South Korea)

^b SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

Author keywords

1 dimensional directional smoothing filter; Bit depth; Directional contrast feature; Displays; False contour; False contour decision map; False contour reduction; Re quantization; Two stage; Variable size

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BIT-DEPTH; DIRECTIONAL CONTRAST FEATURE; FALSE CONTOUR; FALSE CONTOUR DECISION MAP; FALSE CONTOUR REDUCTION; RE-QUANTIZATION;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 33645008507     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1307/mmj/1144437443     Document Type: Article

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