SURE-LET multichannel image denoising: Interscale orthonormal wavelet thresholding

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 482-492

  Luisier, Florian ^a   Blu, Thierry ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Color image denoising; Interscale dependencies; Multichannel image denoising; Nonredundant transforms; Orthonormal wavelet transforms (OWTs); Stein's unbiased risk estimate (SURE)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTIMIZATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

COLOR IMAGE DENOISING; MULTICHANNEL IMAGE DENOISING; MULTIRESOLUTION IMAGE DENOISING; NONREDUNDANT TRANSFORMS; ORTHONORMAL WAVELET TRANSFORMS (OWTS); STEIN'S UNBIASED RISK ESTIMATE (SURE);

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 41949127409     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2008.919370     Document Type: Article

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