SoftCuts: A soft edge smoothness prior for color image super-resolution

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 969-981

  Dai, Shengyang ^a   Han, Mei ^b   Xu, Wei ^c   Wu, Ying ^a   Gong, Yihong ^c   Katsaggelos, Aggelos K ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^c NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

channel description; Edge smoothness; SoftCuts; Super resolution (SR)

Indexed keywords

ALPHA MATTINGS; AVERAGE LENGTHS; COLOR IMAGES; EDGE ARTIFACTS; EDGE SMOOTHNESS; IMAGE EDGES; INTENSITY IMAGES; INTENSITY TRANSITIONS; LEVEL LINES; NEW FORMS; SOFTCUTS; SUPER-RESOLUTION (SR); TOTAL LENGTHS; UNDER-DETERMINED;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 65149092220     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2009.2012908     Document Type: Article

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