Robust impulse noise variance estimation based on image histogram

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 485-488

  Wan, Yi ^a   Chen, Qiqiang ^a   Yang, Yan ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Histogram; Image denoising; Impulse noise; Noise variance; Optimal iteration number; Robust estimation

Indexed keywords

HISTOGRAM; IMAGE DE-NOISING; ITERATION NUMBERS; NOISE VARIANCE; ROBUST ESTIMATION;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMPULSE NOISE; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 77950685069     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2010.2044848     Document Type: Article

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