Linear, worst-case estimators for denoising quantization noise in transform coded images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2967-2986

  Guleryuz, Onur G ^a  

^a DOCOMO USA LABS   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Cross correlation; Deblocking; Denoising; Postprocessing; Quantization; Robust; Transform coding; Worst case

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CROSS CORRELATION; DENOISING; QUANTIZATION NOISE; TRANSFORM CODED IMAGES; TRANSFORM CODING;

IMAGE CODING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LINEAR MODELS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33749180117     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2006.877498     Document Type: Article

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