Adaptive bilateral filter for sharpness enhancement and noise removal

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 664-678

  Zhang, Buyue ^a   Allebach, Jan P ^b  

^a TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilateral filter; De blurring; Noise removal; Range filter; Sharpness enhancement; Slope restoration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NOISE ABATEMENT;

ADAPTIVE BILATERAL FILTER; SHARPNESS ENHANCEMENT; UNSHARP MASK;

ADAPTIVE FILTERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 42649092136     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2008.919949     Document Type: Article

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