Clipped noisy images: Heteroskedastic modeling and practical denoising

Signal Processing

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2609-2629

  Foi, Alessandro ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Censoring; Clipping; Denoising; Heteroskedasticity; Homomorphic transformations; Noise modeling; Overexposure; Raw data; Signal dependent noise; Underexposure; Variance stabilization

Indexed keywords

CENSORING; CLIPPING; DENOISING; HETEROSKEDASTICITY; HOMOMORPHIC TRANSFORMATIONS; NOISE MODELING; OVEREXPOSURE; RAW DATA; SIGNAL-DEPENDENT NOISE; UNDEREXPOSURE; VARIANCE STABILIZATION;

IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; STABILIZATION; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 67651089691     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.04.035     Document Type: Article

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