Accurate and efficient method for smoothly space-variant gaussian blurring

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1362-1370

  Popkin, Timothy ^a   Cavallaro, Andrea ^a   Hands, David ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Filtering; Foveation filtering; Multiresolution

Indexed keywords

BRUTE-FORCE APPROACH; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; EFFICIENT METHOD; FOVEATION FILTERING; GAUSSIAN PYRAMIDS; GAUSSIANS; IMAGE LOCATIONS; MULTI-RESOLUTIONS; OPTIMAL FILTER;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COST REDUCTION; FILTER BANKS; IMAGE CODING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

LOW PASS FILTERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77951288439     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2010.2041400     Document Type: Article

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