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A Fast Approximation of the Bilateral Filter using a Signal Processing Approach

dc.date.accessioned2006-11-13T18:32:46Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-24T10:25:11Z
dc.date.available2006-11-13T18:32:46Z
dc.date.available2018-11-24T10:25:11Z
dc.date.issued2006-11-09
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34876
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.aust.edu.ng/xmlui/handle/1721.1/34876
dc.description.abstractThe bilateral filter is a nonlinear filter that smoothes a signal while preserving strong edges. It has demonstrated great effectiveness for a variety of problems in computer vision and computer graphics, and fast versions have been proposed. Unfortunately, little is known about the accuracy of such accelerations. In this paper, we propose a new signal-processing analysis of the bilateral filter which complements the recent studies that analyzed it as a PDE or as a robust statistical estimator. The key to our analysis is to express the filter in a higher-dimensional space where the signal intensity is added to the original domain dimensions. Importantly, this signal-processing perspective allows us to develop a novel bilateral filtering acceleration using downsampling in space and intensity. This affords a principled expression of accuracy in terms of bandwidth and sampling. The bilateral filter can be expressed as linear convolutions in this augmented space followed by two simple nonlinearities. This allows us to derive criteria for downsampling the key operations and achieving important acceleration of the bilateral filter. We show that, for the same running time, our method is more accurate than previous acceleration techniques. Typically, we are able to process a 2~megapixel image using our acceleration technique in less than a second, and have the result be visually similar to the exact computation that takes several tens of minutes. The acceleration is most effective with large spatial kernels. Furthermore, this approach extends naturally to color images and cross bilateral filtering.
dc.format.extent38 p.
dc.format.extent11564290 bytes
dc.format.extent21570337 bytes
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subjectcolor image processing
dc.subjectcross bilateral filter
dc.subjectedge-preserving filter
dc.titleA Fast Approximation of the Bilateral Filter using a Signal Processing Approach


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