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Edge preserving filters preserve the edges and its information while blurring an image. In other words they are used to smooth an image, while reducing the edge blurring effects across the edge like halos, phantom etc. They are nonlinear in…
Edge-preserving image smoothing is an important step for many low-level vision problems. Though many algorithms have been proposed, there are several difficulties hindering its further development. First, most existing algorithms cannot…
In image processing, it can be a useful pre-processing step to smooth away small structures, such as noise or unimportant details, while retaining the overall structure of the image by keeping edges, which separate objects, sharp. Typically…
In computer vision, image processing and computer graphics, image smoothing filtering is a very basic and important task and to be expected possessing good edge-preserving smoothing property. Here we address the problem that the…
Discontinuity preserving smoothing is a fundamentally important procedure that is useful in a wide variety of image processing contexts. It is directly useful for noise reduction, and frequently used as an intermediate step in higher level…
Since edge detection is in the forefront of image processing for object detection, it is crucial to have a good understanding of edge detection algorithms. The reason for this is that edges form the outline of an object. An edge is the…
This paper presents a quarter Laplacian filter that can preserve corners and edges during image smoothing. Its support region is $2\times2$, which is smaller than the $3\times3$ support region of Laplacian filter. Thus, it is more local.…
Edge-preserving smoothing is a fundamental procedure for many computer vision and graphic applications. This can be achieved with either local methods or global methods. In most cases, global methods can yield superior performance over…
Due to the powerful edge-preserving ability and low computational complexity, Guided image filter (GIF) and its improved versions has been widely applied in computer vision and image processing. However, all of them are suffered halo…
Image smoothing is a fundamental task in signal processing. For such task, box filter is well-known. However, box filter can not keep some features of the signal, such as edges, corners and the jump in the step function. In this paper, we…
Edges are a basic and fundamental feature in image processing, that are used directly or indirectly in huge amount of applications. Inspired by the expansion of image resolution and processing power dilated convolution techniques appeared.…
Image processing researchers commonly assert that "median filtering is better than linear filtering for removing noise in the presence of edges." Using a straightforward large-$n$ decision-theory framework, this folk-theorem is seen to be…
In this work, we propose a new approach for efficient edge-preserving image deconvolution. Our algorithm is based on a novel type of explicit image filter - guided filter. The guided filter can be used as an edge-preserving smoothing…
Graph filters are one of the core tools in graph signal processing. A central aspect of them is their direct distributed implementation. However, the filtering performance is often traded with distributed communication and computational…
Smoothing and sharpening are two fundamental image processing operations. The latter is usually related to the former through the unsharp masking algorithm. In this paper, we develop a new type of filter which performs smoothing or…
Underwater images are degraded by the selective attenuation of light that distorts colours and reduces contrast. The degradation extent depends on the water type, the distance between an object and the camera, and the depth under the water…
Edge detection is widely and fundamental feature used in various algorithms in computer vision to determine the edges in an image. The edge detection algorithm is used to determine the edges in an image which are further used by various…
This paper proposes a novel method which combines both median filter and simple standard deviation to accomplish an excellent edge detector for image processing. First of all, a denoising process must be applied on the grey scale image…
Parameter choosing in classical edge detection algorithms can be a costly and complex task. Choosing the correct parameters can improve considerably the resulting edge-map. In this paper we present a version of Edge Drawing algorithm in…
Most image smoothing filters in the literature assume a piecewise constant model of smoothed output images. However, the piecewise constant model assumption can cause artifacts such as gradient reversals in applications such as image detail…