An anisotropic fourth-order diffusion filter for image noise removal

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 177-191

  Hajiaboli, Mohammad Reza ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anisotropic filtering; Edge distortion; Fourth order filtering; Image denoising; Nonlinear diffusion; Staircase artifacts

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC FILTERING; EDGE DISTORTION; FOURTH-ORDER; IMAGE DE-NOISING; NONLINEAR DIFFUSION; STAIRCASE ARTIFACTS;

ANISOTROPY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; QUALITY CONTROL;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 80053077158     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: 15731405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11263-010-0330-1     Document Type: Article

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