A method based on piecewise linear models for accurate restoration of images corrupted by Gaussian noise

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1935-1943

  Russo, Fabrizio ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Edge analysis; Gaussian noise; Image processing; Image restoration; Nonlinear filters

Indexed keywords

FILTERING ARCHITECTURE; NOISE VARIANCES; TEST IMAGES;

EDGE DETECTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); NONLINEAR FILTERING; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 33947318056     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2006.884347     Document Type: Article

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