Fast adaptive optimization of weighted vector median filters

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2497-2510

  Shen, Yuzhong ^a   Barner, Kenneth E ^b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive; Optimization; Vector median; Weighted median; Weighted vector median

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION; VECTORS;

ERROR METRIC GENERALIZATION; ITERATION; WEIGHTED VECTOR MEDIAN (WVM) FILTERS;

SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

EID: 33745727039     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2006.874028     Document Type: Article

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