Postprocessing of Compressed Images via Sequential Denoising

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 3044-3058

  Dar, Yehuda ^a   Bruckstein, Alfred M ^a   Elad, Michael ^a   Giryes, Raja ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Deblocking; Denoising; Image Restoration; Lossy Compression; Plug and Play Prior; Postprocessing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA COMPRESSION; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS;

DE-NOISING; DEBLOCKING; LOSSY COMPRESSIONS; PLUG AND PLAY; POSTPROCESSING;

IMAGE DENOISING;

EID: 84975230088     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2016.2558825     Document Type: Article

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