Fuzzy two-step filter for impulse noise reduction from color images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3567-3578

  Schulte, Stefan ^a   De Witte, Valérie ^a   Nachtegael, Mike ^a   Van Der Weken, Dietrich ^a   Kerre, Etienne E ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Color; Fuzzy filter; Image processing; Impulse noise; Membership functions; Noise reduction

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL FILTERS; FUZZY SETS; IMPULSE NOISE; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; TEXTURES;

FUZZY DETECTION METHOD; FUZZY FILTER;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FUZZY LOGIC; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; FUZZY LOGIC; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 33750378736     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2006.877494     Document Type: Article

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