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Scaling Theorems for Zero Crossings
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Sketch based coding of grey level images
Signal Processing
Edge representation from wavelet transform maxima
Edge representation from wavelet transform maxima
Ten lectures on wavelets
Second generation compact image coding with wavelets
Wavelets: a tutorial in theory and applications
Extracting surfaces from fuzzy 3D-ultrasound data
SIGGRAPH '95 Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Image Processing with Complex Daubechies Wavelets
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Wavelet-Based Affine Invariant Representation: A Tool for Recognizing Planar Objects in 3D Space
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Recognition of 2D Object Contours Using the Wavelet Transform Zero-Crossing Representation
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Multi-Scale Blur Estimation and Edge Type Classification for Scene Analysis
International Journal of Computer Vision
Wavelet-based multiresolutional representation of computational field simulation datasets
VIS '97 Proceedings of the 8th conference on Visualization '97
Progressive radiance evaluation using directional coherence maps
Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Probabilistic segmentation of volume data for visualization using SOM-PNN classifier
VVS '98 Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE symposium on Volume visualization
Hierarchical volume analysis and visualization based on morphological operators
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Scale-Space Derived From B-Splines
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Convex Multiresolution Analysis
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Feature Detection with Automatic Scale Selection
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Edge Detection and Ridge Detection with Automatic Scale Selection
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A Method to Detect and Characterize Ellipses Using the Hough Transform
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A study on estimation of high resolution component for image enhancement using wavelet
MULTIMEDIA '99 Proceedings of the seventh ACM international conference on Multimedia (Part 2)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
International Journal of Computer Vision - Special issue on computer vision research at NEC Research Institute
Feature extraction for content-based image retrieval in DARWIN
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On Active Camera Control and Camera Motion Recovery with Foveate Wavelet Transform
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
A Dyadic Wavelet Affine Invariant Function for 2D Shape Recognition
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The application of Markov random field models to wavelet-based image denoising
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Faber-Schauder Wavelet Transform, Application to Edge Detection and Image Characterization
Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
Advanced algorithmic approaches to medical image segmentation
A Multiscale Model for Structure-Based Volume Rendering
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Structure-Significant Representation of Structured Datasets
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Restoration of Archival Documents Using a Wavelet Technique
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Wavelet Transform for Analyzing Fog Visibility
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Edge detection by scale multiplication in wavelet domain
Pattern Recognition Letters
Affine invariants for object recognition using the wavelet transform
Pattern Recognition Letters
Wavelet-based corner detection technique using optimal scale
Pattern Recognition Letters
Adaptive image denoising and edge enhancement in scale-space using the wavelet transform
Pattern Recognition Letters - Special issue: Sibgrapi 2001
IWANN '01 Proceedings of the 6th International Work-Conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks: Bio-inspired Applications of Connectionism-Part II
Invariant Image Retrieval Using Wavelet Maxima Moment
VISUAL '99 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Visual Information and Information Systems
A Compact and Multiscale Image Model Based on Level Sets
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Three Novel Models of Threshold Estimator for Wavelet Coefficients
WAA '01 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and Its Applications
Wavelet Applications in Segmentation of Handwriting in Archival Documents
WAA '01 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and Its Applications
A Wavelet Multiresolution Edge Analysis Method for Recovery of Depth from Defocused Images
WAA '01 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and Its Applications
Revised Papers from the International Workshop on Sensor Based Intelligent Robots
Finding of Signal and Image by Integer-Type Haar Lifting Wavelet Transform
Progress in Discovery Science, Final Report of the Japanese Discovery Science Project
An Image Enhancement Technique Based on Wavelets
BMVC '00 Proceedings of the First IEEE International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision
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Wavelet domain signal deconvolution with singularity-preserving regularization
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What's Your Sign?: Efficient Sign Coding for Embedded Wavelet Image Coding
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ICIP '95 Proceedings of the 1995 International Conference on Image Processing (Vol.2)-Volume 2 - Volume 2
Symmetric wavelet edge detector of the minimum length
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A Wavelet-Based Technique for Image Similarity Estimation
ITCC '00 Proceedings of the The International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'00)
Applied soft computing strategies for autonomous field robotics
Autonomous robotic systems
ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Papers
Skeletonization of Ribbon-Like Shapes Based on a New Wavelet Function
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Construction of wavelets for width-invariant characterization of curves
Pattern Recognition Letters
Multiresolution Wavelet Based Adaptive Numerical Dissipation Control for High Order Methods
Journal of Scientific Computing
A NOVEL contour-based 3D terrain matching algorithm using wavelet transform
Pattern Recognition Letters
Ridge-valley lines on meshes via implicit surface fitting
ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Papers
Iris Recognition Using Wavelet Features
Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems
Geometric distortion-resilient image hashing system and its application scalability
Proceedings of the 2004 workshop on Multimedia and security
Recognition of control chart patterns using multi-resolution wavelets analysis and neural networks
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Coastline extraction from SAR images and a method for the evaluation of the coastline precision
Pattern Recognition Letters - Special issue: Pattern recognition for remote sensing (PRRS 2002)
Scale-adaptive detection and local characterization of edges based on wavelet transform
Signal Processing - Signal processing in communications
Compressing and companding high dynamic range images with subband architectures
ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Papers
Multiscale fuzzy reasoning (MFR) for automatic object extraction
Pattern Recognition Letters
Image contrast enhancement via entropy production
Real-Time Imaging - Special issue on imaging in bioinformatics: Part III
Computer vision based method for real-time fire and flame detection
Pattern Recognition Letters
Effect of independent component analysis on multifractality of EEG during visual-motor task
Signal Processing - Neuronal coordination in the brain: A signal processing perspective
Journal of Computational Physics
Wavelet energy feature extraction and matching for palmprint recognition
Journal of Computer Science and Technology
Features extraction and analysis for classifying causable patterns in control charts
Computers and Industrial Engineering
A hybrid multi-scale model for thyroid nodule boundary detection on ultrasound images
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Real-time detection of steam in video images
Pattern Recognition
Approaches for automated detection and classification of masses in mammograms
Pattern Recognition
Scale multiplication in odd Gabor transform domain for edge detection
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
Guest editorial: Image fusion: Advances in the state of the art
Information Fusion
Combined edge detection using wavelet transform and signal registration
Image and Vision Computing
Capture local information in shape representation
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Synthetic soundscapes with natural grains
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
A novel approach for edge detection based on the theory of universal gravity
Pattern Recognition
Bayesian wavelet snake for computer-aided diagnosis of lung nodules
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
Development of low dissipative high order filter schemes for multiscale Navier-Stokes/MHD systems
Journal of Computational Physics
Multi-resolution system for artifact removal and edge enhancement in computerized tomography images
Pattern Recognition Letters
A real-time wavelet-domain video denoising implementation in FPGA
EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems
Wavelet video denoising with regularized multiresolution motion estimation
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
Sparse approximation of images inspired from the functional architecture of the primary visual areas
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
Edge-preserving wavelet thresholding for image denoising
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
A method for linking computed image features to histological semantics in neuropathology
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Detection and characterization of physiological states in bioprocesses based on Hölder exponent
Knowledge-Based Systems
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A novel algorithm for straightening highly curved images of human chromosome
Pattern Recognition Letters
Hybrid wavelet and chaos theory for runoff forecasting
ISTASC'05 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS/IASME International Conference on Systems Theory and Scientific Computation
Edge detection by wavelet scale correlation
SSIP'06 Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS International Conference on Signal, Speech and Image Processing
Writer identification using global wavelet-based features
Neurocomputing
Image Compression with Anisotropic Diffusion
Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
A Framework for Multi-view Gender Classification
Neural Information Processing
Deriving and Mining Spatiotemporal Event Schemas in In-Situ Sensor Data
ICCSA '08 Proceeding sof the international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, Part I
Discrete Wavelet Diffusion for Image Denoising
ICISP '08 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Image and Signal Processing
Wavelet Noise Reduction Based on Energy Features
ICIAR '08 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Image Analysis and Recognition
Examining the Role of Scale in the Context of the Non-Local-Means Filter
ICIAR '08 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Image Analysis and Recognition
Computers in Biology and Medicine
Feature space and metric measures for fusing multisensor images
International Journal of Remote Sensing
Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing
Iris recognition based on multialgorithmic fusion
WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
Non-Iterative Hierarchical Registration for Medical Images
Journal of Signal Processing Systems
A Digital Image Denoising Method with Edge Preservation Using Dyadic Lifting Schemes
PSIVT '09 Proceedings of the 3rd Pacific Rim Symposium on Advances in Image and Video Technology
An edge detection approach based on directional wavelet transform
Computers & Mathematics with Applications
Texture image retrieval based on non-tensor product wavelet filter banks
Signal Processing
fMRI Activation Detection by MultiScale Hidden Markov Model
BICoB '09 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Intelligent Processing of Medical Images in the Wavelet Domain
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Emerging Artificial Intelligence Applications in Computer Engineering: Real Word AI Systems with Applications in eHealth, HCI, Information Retrieval and Pervasive Technologies
Highlight on a Feature Extracted at Fine Scales: The Pointwise Lipschitz Regularity
SSVM '09 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision
A novel iris segmentation using radial-suppression edge detection
Signal Processing
A unified framework for designing textures using energy optimization
Pattern Recognition
Accelerating reinforcement learning by composing solutions of automatically identified subtasks
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
ECG signal compression using 2D wavelet foveation
Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Hybrid Information Technology
Filter design for cancellation of baseline-fluctuation in needle EMG recordings
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Features extraction and analysis for classifying causable patterns in control charts
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Segmentation-driven image fusion based on alpha-stable modeling of wavelet coefficients
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
A shearlet approach to edge analysis and detection
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Image segmentation based on GrabCut framework integrating multiscale nonlinear structure tensor
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
A short introduction to wavelets and their applications
IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine
Facial Feature Extraction Based on Wavelet Transform
AICI '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence
Intelligent target recognition based on wavelet packet neural network
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Robust watershed segmentation using wavelets
Image and Vision Computing
A wavelet-based multiresolution edge detection and tracking
Image and Vision Computing
Boundary refinements for wavelet-domain multiscale texture segmentation
Image and Vision Computing
Optimal threshold selection algorithm in edge detection based on wavelet transform
Image and Vision Computing
Multi-scale image de-noising and de-cluttering using cross-scale mathematical morphology
CGIM '07 Proceedings of the Ninth IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging
Multiscale retinex color image recovery enhancement algorithm
CCDC'09 Proceedings of the 21st annual international conference on Chinese control and decision conference
Edge detection insensitive to changes of illumination in the image
Image and Vision Computing
International Journal of Computer Vision
Advanced film grain noise extraction and synthesis for high-definition video coding
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
The SIGMA algorithm: a glottal activity detector for electroglottographic signals
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
Ribbon-like skeletonization based on contour reconstrction on intersection regions
SMC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Skeletonization based on high-level Markov random field
SMC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
The performance analysis of spectrum sensing algorithms based on wavelet edge detection
WiCOM'09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Wireless communications, networking and mobile computing
Research on ultrasonic detection of seabed oil pipeline based on wavelet packet de-noising
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Wavelet multi-scale edge detection using adaptive threshold
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Stochastic texture analysis for monitoring stochastic processes in industry
Pattern Recognition Letters
Image segmentation using topological persistence
CAIP'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computer analysis of images and patterns
Study of a Robust Feature: The Pointwise Lipschitz Regularity
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Multiscale boundary identification for medical images
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Palm vein extraction and matching for personal authentication
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Unsupervised colour image segmentation using dual-tree complex wavelet transform
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
3D CAD model matching from 2D local invariant features
Computers in Industry
Scratch detection supported by coherency analysis of motion vector fields
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Natural image utility assessment using image contours
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Segmentation and registration based analysis of microscopy images
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An algorithm for real-time noise cancellation in wireless sensor networks
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Using Dihedral Angles for Edge Extraction in Range Data
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New learning based super-resolution: use of DWT and IGMRF prior
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
New learning based super-resolution: use of DWT and IGMRF prior
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Text detection in images using sparse representation with discriminative dictionaries
Image and Vision Computing
Performance analysis of various leaf boundary edge detection algorithms
Proceedings of the 1st Amrita ACM-W Celebration on Women in Computing in India
A subspace approach for matching 2D shapes under affine distortions
Pattern Recognition
Improving daily rainfall estimation from NDVI using a wavelet transform
Environmental Modelling & Software
Perceptually near pawlak partitions
Transactions on rough sets XII
Multiresolution models for object detection
ECCV'10 Proceedings of the 11th European conference on Computer vision: Part IV
A multiresolution method for tagline detection and indexing
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Analytical footprints: compact representation of elementary singularities in wavelet bases
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Undecimated wavelet transform-based image interpolation
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Partially occluded object recognition
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
Characterization and recognition of radar targets using multiscale edges
ICASSP'93 Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE international conference on Acoustics, speech, and signal processing: plenary, special, audio, underwater acoustics, VLSI, neural networks - Volume I
Completeness and stability of partial dyadic wavelet domain signal representations
ICASSP'93 Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE international conference on Acoustics, speech, and signal processing: digital speech processing - Volume III
Measurement of signal similarity using the maxima of the wavelet transform
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Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis
Translation-invariant two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform on graphics processing units
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Adaptive edge detection with directional wavelet transform
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Pattern Recognition Letters
Medical image compression and analysis using wavelet modulus maxima decomposition
Machine Graphics & Vision International Journal
Edge-based compression of cartoon-like images with homogeneous diffusion
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Adaptive non-linear diffusion in wavelet domain
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Robust copy-move image forgery detection using undecimated wavelets and Zernike moments
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Short-term prediction on parameter-varying systems by multiwavelets neural network
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MPEG postprocessing system using edge signal variable filter
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Iterative 3-d pose correction and content-based image retrieval for dorsal fin recognition
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Iris recognition using a low level of details
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Breast component adaptive wavelet enhancement for soft-copy display of mammograms
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FPGA design and implementation of a wavelet-domain video denoising system
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A novel texture descriptor using over-complete wavelet transform and its fractal signature
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Spatio-temporally adaptive regularization for enhancement of motion compensated wavelet coded video
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A novel automated hand-based personal identification
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Fast multi-scale edge-detection in medical ultrasound signals
Signal Processing
Using the Wavelet Transform for T-wave alternans detection
Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
Wavelet transforms on two-dimensional images
Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
Wavelet transforms and edge detectors on digital images
Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
Noise-robust edge detector combining isotropic and anisotropic Gaussian kernels
Pattern Recognition
Realization of wavelet transform using switched-current filters
Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
CNNEDGEPOT: CNN based edge detection of 2D near surface potential field data
Computers & Geosciences
Perceptual indiscernibility, rough sets, descriptively near sets, and image analysis
Transactions on Rough Sets XV
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Remote raster image browsing based on fast content reduction for mobile environments
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Efficient method for feature extraction on video preocessing
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Computers and Electrical Engineering
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MICCAI'12 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - Volume Part I
Efficient blur estimation using multi-scale quadrature filters
Signal Processing
Exposing digital audio forgeries in time domain by using singularity analysis with wavelets
Proceedings of the first ACM workshop on Information hiding and multimedia security
Research of fetal ECG extraction using wavelet analysis and adaptive filtering
Computers in Biology and Medicine
Reconstructing an image from its edge representation
Digital Signal Processing
Two-dimensional multi-pixel anisotropic Gaussian filter for edge-line segment (ELS) detection
Image and Vision Computing
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A multiscale Canny edge detection is equivalent to finding the local maxima of a wavelet transform. The authors study the properties of multiscale edges through the wavelet theory. For pattern recognition, one often needs to discriminate different types of edges. They show that the evolution of wavelet local maxima across scales characterize the local shape of irregular structures. Numerical descriptors of edge types are derived. The completeness of a multiscale edge representation is also studied. The authors describe an algorithm that reconstructs a close approximation of 1-D and 2-D signals from their multiscale edges. For images, the reconstruction errors are below visual sensitivity. As an application, a compact image coding algorithm that selects important edges and compresses the image data by factors over 30 has been implemented.