A Non-parametric Multi-Scale Statistical Model for Natural Images

Paul Viola

The observed distribution of visual images is far from uniform.On the contrary, images have complex and important structure that can be used for image processing, recognition and analysis.There have been many proposed approaches to the principled statistical modeling of images, but each has been limited in either the complexity of the models or the complexity of the images.We present a non-parametric multi-scale statistical model for images that can be used for recognition, image de-noising, and in a ``generative mode'' to synthesize high quality textures.
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