A nonlinear Stein-based estimator for multichannel image denoising

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 56, Issue 8 II, 2008, Pages 3855-3870

  Chaux, Caroline ^a   Duval, Laurent ^b   Benazza Benyahia, Amel ^c   Pesquet, Jean Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

^b IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Block estimate; Denoising; Dual tree wavelet transform; Frames; M band wavelet transform; Multichannel noise; Multicomponent image; Multivariate estimation; Nonlinear estima tion; Stein's principle; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; FOOD ADDITIVES; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS;

ADDITIVE GAUSSIAN NOISE; BLOCK ESTIMATE; DE-NOISING METHOD; DENOISING; DUAL-TREE WAVELET TRANSFORM; FRAMES; IMAGE DE-NOISING; M-BAND WAVELET TRANSFORM; MULTI CHANNEL; MULTI-COMPONENT IMAGES; MULTI-SCALE REPRESENTATION; MULTI-SENSOR SYSTEMS; MULTI-SPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING; MULTICHANNEL NOISE; MULTICOMPONENT IMAGE; MULTIVARIATE ESTIMATION; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL APPROACHES; NONLINEAR ESTIMA TION; OPTIMAL PARAMETERS; STEIN'S PRINCIPLE; THRESHOLDING; WAVELET DE-NOISING TECHNIQUES; WAVELET SUBBANDS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 48849094139     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2008.921757     Document Type: Article

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