Noise reduction and edge detection via kernel anisotropic diffusion

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1496-1503

  Yu, Jinhua ^a   Wang, Yuanyuan ^a   Shen, Yuzhong ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Old Dominion University   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Edge detection; Kernel methods; Noise reduction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EDGE DETECTION; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION THRESHOLD ESTIMATION; KERNEL METHODS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 44449126519     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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