An improved anisotropic diffusion model for detail- and edge-preserving smoothing

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 2012-2023

  Chao, Shin Min ^a   Tsai, Du Ming ^a  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Edge preserving smoothing; Image denoising; Image restoration

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION MODEL; DIFFUSION MODEL; DIFFUSION PROCESS; EDGE-PRESERVING SMOOTHING; FINE FEATURE; GRADIENT INFORMATIONS; GRAY-LEVEL; IMAGE DE-NOISING; IMAGE RESTORATION; LOCAL GRADIENTS; MEDICAL IMAGES; REMOVE NOISE; TEST SAMPLES; THIN EDGE;

DIFFUSION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NOISE POLLUTION CONTROL; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; RESTORATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 77956059365     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2010.06.004     Document Type: Article

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