An image-enhancement system based on noise estimation

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1435-1442

  Russo, Fabrizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gaussian noise; Image enhancement; Image processing; Noise measurement; Nonlinear filters

Indexed keywords

NOISY IMAGE; PIECEWISE LINEAR FILTERING; STANDARD DEVIATION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); NONLINEAR FILTERING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; TABLE LOOKUP;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 34547889034     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2007.899887     Document Type: Article

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