Outlier robust corner-preserving methods for reconstructing noisy images

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 132-165

  Hillebrand, Martin ^a   Müller, Christine H ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consistency; Corner preserving; M estimation; M kernel estimation; Nonparametric regression; Outliers; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 34648817924     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053606000001109     Document Type: Article

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