Title
A Fast Two-Stage Bilateral Filter Using Constant Time O(1) Histogram Generation
Abstract
Bilateral Filtering (BF) is an effective edge-preserving smoothing technique in image processing. However, an inherent problem of BF for image denoising is that it is challenging to differentiate image noise and details with the range kernel, thus often preserving both noise and edges in denoising. This letter proposes a novel Dual-Histogram BF (DHBF) method that exploits an edge-preserving noise-reduced guidance image to compute the range kernel, removing isolated noisy pixels for better denoising results. Furthermore, we approximate the spatial kernel using mean filtering based on column histogram construction to achieve constant-time filtering regardless of the kernel radius' size and achieve better smoothing. Experimental results on multiple benchmark datasets for denoising show that the proposed DHBF outperforms other state-of-the-art BF methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.3390/s22030926
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
image smoothing, gaussian filtering, bilateral filtering, O(1) complexity
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
1424-8220
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sheng-Wei Cheng100.34
Yi-Ting Lin200.34
Yan-Tsung Peng300.68