MMSE filtering of generalised signal-dependent noise in spatial and shift-invariant wavelet domains

Signal Processing

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2056-2066

  Argenti, Fabrizio ^a   Torricelli, Gionatan ^a   Alparone, Luciano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Film grain noise; Generalised signal dependent noise; Linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) filtering; Speckle; Stationary wavelet transform (SWT)

Indexed keywords

ERROR DETECTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE PROCESSING; NOISE ABATEMENT; NOISE GENERATORS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECKLE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ADDITIVE WHITE NOISE; FILM GRAIN NOISE; GENERALISED SIGNAL DEPENDENT NOISE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR ESTIMATION; MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERROR (LMMSE) FILTERING; STATIONARY WAVELET TRANSFORM (SWT);

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EID: 33646933602     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2005.10.014     Document Type: Article

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