A novel method of infrared image denoising and edge enhancement

Signal Processing

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1606-1614

  Ni, Chao ^a   Li, Qi ^a   Xia, Liang Z ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Edge map; Forward and backward diffusion; Infrared image; Wavelet diffusion

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

BACKWARD DIFFUSION; EDGE MAP; INFRARED IMAGE; WAVELET DIFFUSION;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 39749146394     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2007.12.016     Document Type: Article

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