Bayesian inference on multiscale models for poisson intensity estimation: Applications to photon-limited image denoising

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1724-1741

  Lefkimmiatis, Stamatios ^a   Maragos, Petros ^a   Papandreou, George ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Expectation maximization (EM) algorithm; Hidden Markov tree (HMT); Photon limited imaging; Poisson processes; Poisson Haar decomposition

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION (EM) ALGORITHM; HIDDEN MARKOV TREE (HMT); PHOTON-LIMITED IMAGING; POISSON PROCESSES; POISSON-HAAR DECOMPOSITION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DECOMPOSITION; EDGE DETECTION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFERENCE ENGINES; LABELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; MIXTURES; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONS; POISSON EQUATION;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 68149132430     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2009.2022008     Document Type: Article

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