Methods for blind evaluation of noise variance in multichannel optical and radar images

Telecommunications and Radio Engineering (English translation of Elektrosvyaz and Radiotekhnika)

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 527-556

  Lukin, V V ^a   Abramov, S K ^a   Ponomarenko, N N ^a   Vozel, Benoit ^b   Chehdi, Kacem ^b  

^a NATIONAL AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PHASE NOISE; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEXTURES;

BLIND EVALUATION; DENOISING; NOISE VARIANCE;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 34249734819     PISSN: 00402508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/TelecomRadEng.v65.i6.40     Document Type: Article

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