Image modeling and denoising with orientation-adapted Gaussian scale mixtures

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2089-2101

  Hammond, David K ^a   Simoncelli, Eero P ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gaussian Scale Mixtures; Image denoising; Image processing; Statistical image modeling; Wavelet transforms

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CURVE FITTING; IMAGE PROCESSING; RANDOM VARIABLES; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRELLIS CODES; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BAYESIAN; DENOISING; GAUSSIAN; GAUSSIAN SCALE MIXTURES; HIDDEN VARIABLES; IMAGE DENOISING; IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS; LEAST-SQUARES ESTIMATORS; MIXTURE OF GAUSSIANS; MODELING; MULTISCALE; MULTIVARIATE GAUSSIAN; NONORIENTED; ORIENTED PROCESSES; STATISTICAL IMAGE MODELING; STATISTICAL MODELS;

MIXTURES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 54949106570     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2008.2004796     Document Type: Article

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