Improved minimal inter-quantile distance method for blind estimation of noise variance in images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6748, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Lukin, Vladimir V ^a   Abramov, Sergey K ^a   Zelensky, Alexander A ^a   Astola, Jaakko T ^b   Vozel, Benoit ^c   Chehdi, Kacem ^c  

^a NATIONAL AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Inter quantile distance; Noise variance evaluation

Indexed keywords

BLIND EQUALIZATION; INFORMATION USE; OPTICAL FILTERS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL OPTICS;

BLIND ESTIMATION; INTER-QUANTILE DISTANCE; NOISE VARIANCE EVALUATION; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 42449098505     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.738006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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