Shape restoration via a regularized curvature flow

Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 205-223

  Gil, Debora ^a   Radeva, Petia ^a  

^a Barcelona Perception Computing Lab   (Spain)

Author keywords

Geometric flows; Non linear filtering; Shape restoration

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; NONLINEAR FILTERING; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

GEOMETRIC FLOWS; REGULARIZED CURVATURE FLOW (RCF); SHAPE RESTORATION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 5444271132     PISSN: 09249907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JMIV.0000043737.96390.dc     Document Type: Article

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