Robust NL-means filter with optimal pixel-wise smoothing parameter for statistical image denoising

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1703-1716

  Doré, Vincent ^a   Cheriet, Mohamed ^a  

^a ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bandwidth selection; Cp statistic; Image denoising; Multiplicative noisy image; NL means filter; Robust regression; Smoothing parameter

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH SELECTION; CP STATISTIC; IMAGE DENOISING; MULTIPLICATIVE NOISY IMAGE; NL-MEANS FILTER; ROBUST REGRESSION; SMOOTHING PARAMETER;

BANDWIDTH; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE NOISE; PIXELS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 65649138418     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2008.2011832     Document Type: Article

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