A closed-form nonparametric Bayesian estimator in the wavelet domain of images using an approximate α-stable prior

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1370-1382

  Boubchir, Larbi ^a   Fadili, Jalal M ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

stable; Bayesian denoiser; Gaussian mixture model; Posterior conditional mean; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASONICS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

Α-STABLE; BAYESIAN DENOISER; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; POSTERIOR CONDITIONAL MEAN; WAVELETS;

IMAGE RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33646771024     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2006.01.008     Document Type: Article

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