Statistical image modeling in the contourlet domain using contextual hidden Markov models

Signal Processing

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 946-951

  Long, Zhiling ^a   Younan, Nicolas H ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context design; Contourlet; Hidden Markov models; Image modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; OBJECT RECOGNITION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CONTEXT DESIGN; CONTOURLET; DE-NOISING; DESIGN PROCEDURES; IMAGE MODELING; IMAGE MODELS; MARKOV TREES; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; NEW MODELS; STATE-OF-THE ARTS; STATISTICAL IMAGE MODELING; WAVELET IMAGES;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 58849152796     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2008.11.011     Document Type: Article

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