A new scheme for robust gradient vector estimation in color images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2211-2220

  Nezhadarya, Ehsan ^a   Ward, Rabab Kreidieh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Color image processing; edge detection; Gaussian noise; gradient estimation; impulse noise; nonlinear filtering

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION OPERATOR; BASIC ELEMENTS; BLURRING EFFECT; COLOR GRADIENTS; COLOR IMAGES; EDGE DETECTORS; GRADIENT DIRECTION; GRADIENT ESTIMATION; GRADIENT ESTIMATOR; GRADIENT MAGNITUDE; GRADIENT VECTORS; HIGH-PASS; LOW-PASS; POST-FILTERING; POSTFILTERS; PRE-FILTERING; PREFILTERS; ROBUST ESTIMATE; ROBUST ESTIMATION; ROBUSTNESS AGAINST NOISE;

COLOR; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDGE DETECTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMPULSE NOISE; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 79960478882     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2011.2118217     Document Type: Article

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