Analysis of sharpness increase by image noise

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7240, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Kurihara, Takehito ^a   Aoki, Naokazu ^a   Kobayashi, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Edge; Image quality; Noise; Sharpness perception; Texture

Indexed keywords

EDGE; EDGE REGIONS; FREQUENCY PATTERNS; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; IMAGE NOISE; LOWER FREQUENCIES; LOWER FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; NATURAL IMAGES; NOISE; NOISE LEVELS; SHARPNESS PERCEPTION; TREE BARKS;

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; IMAGE QUALITY;

TEXTURES;

EID: 63549119446     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.806078     Document Type: Conference Paper

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