Title
Bilateral Filtering and Anisotropic Diffusion: Towards a Unified Viewpoint
Abstract
Bilateral filtering has recently been proposed as a noniterative alternative to anisotropic diffusion. In both these approaches, images are smoothed while edges are preserved. Unlike anisotropic diffusion, bilateral filtering does not involve the solution of partial differential equations and can be implemented in a single iteration. Despite the difference in implementation, both methods are designed to prevent averaging across edges while smoothing an image. Their similarity suggests they can somehow be linked. Using a generalized representation for the intensity, we show that both can be related to adaptive smoothing. As a consequence, bilateral filtering can be applied to denoise and coherence-enhance degraded images with approaches similar to anisotropic diffusion.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1007/3-540-47778-0_24
Scale-Space
Keywords
Field
DocType
noniterative alternative,single iteration,generalized representation,coherence-enhance degraded image,unified viewpoint,partial differential equation,anisotropic diffusion,bilateral filtering
Anisotropic diffusion,Discrete mathematics,Mathematical analysis,Computer science,Image processing,Algorithm,Smoothing,Kernel (image processing),Bilateral filter,Partial differential equation,Edge-preserving smoothing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
2106
0302-9743
3-540-42317-6
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
0.80
10
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Danny Barash126524.21