Is denoising dead?

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 895-911

  Chatterjee, Priyam ^a   Milanfar, Peyman ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian Cram r Rao lower bound (CRLB); Bias; Bootstrapping; Image denoising; Mean squared error

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN; DE-NOISING; DE-NOISING ALGORITHM; DENOISING METHODS; IMAGE DE-NOISING; LOWER BOUNDS; MEAN SQUARED ERROR; NOISE SENSITIVITY; PER UNIT; PERFORMANCE BOUNDS; RECENT PROGRESS; SIGNAL TO NOISE; THEORETICAL LIMITS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; THREE TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 77949674075     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2009.2037087     Document Type: Article

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