Stereographic combing a porcupine or studies on direction diffusion in image processing

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1477-1508

  Sochen, Nir A ^a   Sagiv, Chen ^a   Kimmel, Ron ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Beltrami framework; Constrained optimization; Orientation diffusion

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DIFFUSION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NOISE ABATEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; STEREO VISION;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; BELTRAMI FRAMEWORK; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; ORIENTATION DIFFUSION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 9744276022     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139902415518     Document Type: Article

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