Title
Edge-preserving image decomposition via joint weighted least squares
Abstract
Recent years have witnessed the emergence of image decomposition techniques which effectively separate an image into a piecewise smooth base layer and several residual detail layers. However, the intricacy of detail patterns in some cases may result in side-effects including remnant textures, wrongly-smoothed edges, and distorted appearance. We introduce a new way to construct an edge-preserving image decomposition with properties of detail smoothing, edge retention, and shape fitting. Our method has three main steps: suppressing high-contrast details via a windowed variation similarity measure, detecting salient edges to produce an edge-guided image, and fitting the original shape using a weighted least squares framework. Experimental results indicate that the proposed approach can appropriately smooth non-edge regions even when textures and structures are similar in scale. The effectiveness of our approach is demonstrated in the contexts of detail manipulation, HDR tone mapping, and image abstraction.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/s41095-015-0006-4
Computational Visual Media
Keywords
Field
DocType
detail suppression, edge extraction, edge-preserving decomposition, shape recovery
Least squares,Computer vision,Residual,Similarity measure,Pattern recognition,Tone mapping,Smoothing,Artificial intelligence,Shape fitting,Mathematics,Piecewise,Salient
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
1
1
2096-0662
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.38
26
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
shao pan130.38
Shouhong Ding22313.20
Lizhuang Ma3498100.70
w u yunsheng430.38
Yong-Jian Wu540.72