Image enhancement is a challenging issue in many applications. In the last two decades, there are various filters developed. This paper proposes a novel method which removes Gaussian noise from the gray scale images. The proposed technique is compared with Enhanced Fuzzy Peer Group Filter (EFPGF) for various noise levels. Experimental results proved that the proposed filter achieves better Peak...

Image denoising is the manipulation of the image data to produce a visually high quality image. At present there are a variety of methods to remove noise from digital images. There are different types of filters like mean filter, median filter, bilateral filter, wiener filter etc. to remove a single type of noise such as salt and pepper noise, speckle noise, Gaussian noise etc. But if the image...

Bilateral filter is a state-of-the-art method for noise reduction and color depth enhancement. The plausible visual result the filter produces makes it highly desired for video processing applications, yet, its high computational complexity makes a real-time implementation a challenging task. Presented here is a highly-parallel version of the bilateral filter for noise reduction in color video ...

Unless otherwise specified, the sets with which we shall deal will be subsets of the open interval J=(0, 1). The term c-set will be used to describe a set each of whose points is a bilateral condensation point of the set. A d-set will be a set that has metric density 1 at each of its points. (Clearly, every d-set is a c-set, but not conversely.) In this terminology, a necessary and sufficient c...

I develop a factor content of trade prediction for the Heckscher-OhlinVanek model (HOV) that relates bilateral differences in country endowments to bilateral differences in factor contents. The results are striking. In comparisons of North-South factor contents or factor contents of countries with very different endowments (e.g., with very different capital-labor ratios), there is clear support...

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Trilateralism among the United States, Japan and Korea has significantly contributed to the peace and security of East Asia in the last fifty years. The most important links in the US-Japan-Korea triangle are the US’s bilateral alliances with Japan and South Korea. But trilateralism has been important in issue areas such as policy coordination regarding North Korea. Building on this success, th...

Negotiation between agents aims at reaching an agreement in which the conflicting interests of agents are accommodated. In this paper, we present a concrete negotiation scenario where two agents are situated in a maze and the negotiation outcome is a cell where they will meet. Based on their individual preferences (a minimal distance from their location computed from their partial knowledge of ...

Its protocol calls for Annex B counties to reduce their average greenhouse gas emissions over 2008-2012 to at least five percent below 1990 levels. It adopted a " Plan of Action. " Since no details were given at these COPs, we have to design the mechanisms. 3 3. Which Trading Rule? • Bilateral Trading Is it inefficient due to mismatching? Does the revelation of contracted prices improve its eff...