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Data compression and enhancement of sampled images.

A G Tescher, H C Andrews

    Applied Optics
    |February 2, 2010
    PubMed
    Summary

    Understanding the cutoff frequency in digital images is crucial. Estimating this frequency using sharp edges allows for noise reduction and data compression in sampled images.

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