A real-time technique for spatio-temporal video noise estimation

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1690-1699

  Ghazal, Mohammed ^a,b   Amer, Aishy ^a,b   Ghrayeb, Ali ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Homogeneity measurement; Robust estimator; Spatio temporal estimation; Video noise; White noise

Indexed keywords

HOMOGENEITY MEASUREMENT; SPATIO TEMPORAL ESTIMATION; VIDEO NOISE;

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WHITE NOISE;

VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 36549075081     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2007.903805     Document Type: Article

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