A new family of nonredundant transforms using hybrid wavelets and directional filter banks

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1152-1167

  Eslami, Ramin ^a,b   Radha, Hayder ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Directional filter banks (DFBs); Geometrical image transforms; Image coding; Image denoising; Nonlinear approximation (NLA); Wavelet transform (WT)

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FILTER BANKS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DIRECTIONAL FILTER BANK; GEOMETRICAL IMAGE TRANSFORM; IMAGE DENOISING; NONLINEAR APPROXIMATION;

IMAGE CODING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 34047199323     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2007.891791     Document Type: Article

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