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Design of a Low-Power VLSI Macrocell for Nonlinear
Adaptive Video Noise Reduction
Sergio S aponara
Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Via Caruso, 56122 Pisa, Italy
Email: sergio.saponara@iet.unipi.it
Luca ... 2004
A VLSI macrocell for edge-preserving video noise reduction is proposed in the paper. It is based on a no...
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parallel mechanism driven by SEA actuators) when in contact with a human. We have analyzed an equivalent
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parallel with the SEA spring. Figure 3 (A, B) presents a
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Technology, Hospice Africa Uganda and the Hospice
Palliative Care Association of South Africa.
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adaptive tuning based on the approach presented here has
been ... on artificial noised images, to evalu-
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age base, for IPC testing. So, how c an we evaluate on a great
number of images a...