Title
Fast Multi-Layer Laplacian Enhancement.
Abstract
A novel, fast, and practical way of enhancing images is introduced in this paper. Our approach builds on Laplacian operators of well-known edge-aware kernels, such as bilateral and nonlocal means, and extends these filteru0027s capabilities to perform more effective and fast image smoothing, sharpening, and tone manipulation. We propose an approximation of the Laplacian, which does not require normalization of the kernel weights. Multiple Laplacians of the affinity weights endow our method with progressive detail decomposition of the input image from fine to coarse scale. These image components are blended by a structure mask, which avoids noise/artifact magnification or detail loss in the output image. Contributions of the proposed method to existing image editing tools are: 1) low computational and memory requirements, making it appropriate for mobile device implementations (e.g., as a finish step in a camera pipeline); and 2) a range of filtering applications from detail enhancement to denoising with only a few control parameters, enabling the user to apply a combination of various (and even opposite) filtering effects.
Year
Venue
DocType
2016
IEEE Trans. Computational Imaging
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
abs/1606.07396
4
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hossein Talebi1373.61
Peyman Milanfar23284155.61