Translation-invariant contourlet transform and its application to image denoising

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3362-3374

  Eslami, Ramin ^a   Radha, Hayder ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithme trous; Bivariate shrinkage; Filter banks; Image denoising; Translation invariance (TI); Translation invariant contourlet transform (TICT)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; REDUNDANCY; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ADAPTED BIVARIATE SHRINKAGE SCHEME; IMAGE DENOISING; TRANSLATION-INVARIANT CONTOURLET TRANSFORM;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 33750379296     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2006.881992     Document Type: Article

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