Edge preserved image enhancement using adaptive fusion of images denoised by wavelet and curvelet transform

Digital Signal Processing: A Review Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 118-130

  Bhutada, G G ^a   Anand, R S ^a   Saxena, S C ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Curvelet transform; Edge preservation; Image denoising; Image fusion; Remnant; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

IMAGE DENOISING; IMAGE FUSION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CURVE-LET TRANSFORMS; EDGE PRESERVATIONS; EDGE STRUCTURES; HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; REMNANT; SPATIALLY ADAPTIVE; VARIANCE APPROACHES;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 78649979697     PISSN: 10512004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsp.2010.09.002     Document Type: Article

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