Segmentation-based method for blind evaluation of noise variance in images

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

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

^a NATIONAL AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Blind variance evaluation; Multichannel images; Spatially correlated noise

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION FILTERING; REMOTE SENSING; WHITE NOISE;

BLIND EVALUATIONS; BLIND VARIANCE EVALUATION; MULTICHANNEL IMAGES; NOISE STATISTICS; PRIORI INFORMATION; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIALLY CORRELATED NOISE;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 50249182825     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2977788     Document Type: Article

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