Focus area extraction by blind deconvolution for defining regions of interest

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1080-1085

  Kovács, Levente ^a   Szirányi, Tamás ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Feature representation; Indexing methods; Sharpening and deblurring; Transform methods; Video retrieval

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

BLIND DECONVOLUTION; FEATURE REPRESENTATION; IMAGE DEBLURRING; IMAGE INDEXING; IMAGE SHARPENING; VIDEO RETRIEVAL;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34247555504     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.1079     Document Type: Article

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