An area-efficient alternative to adaptive median filtering in fpgas

Proceedings - 2007 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 216-221

  Vasicek, Zdenek ^a   Sekanina, Lukas ^a  

^a BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

ADAPTIVE MEDIAN FILTERS; FPGA IMPLEMENTATIONS; HIGH INTENSITIES; IMAGE FILTERS; NEW APPROACHES; POST-PROCESSING; PRE-PROCESSING; SALT-AND-PEPPER NOISES;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA);

EID: 48149086405     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FPL.2007.4380650     Document Type: Conference Paper

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