Embedding Bilateral Filter in Least Squares for Efficient Edge-preserving Image Smoothing

Edge-preserving smoothing is a fundamental procedure for many computer vision and graphic applications. This can be achieved with either local methods or global methods. In most cases, global methods can yield superior performance over local ones. However, local methods usually run much faster than...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2018-12
Main Authors: Liu, Wei, Zhang, Pingping, Chen, Xiaogang, Shen, Chunhua, Huang, Xiaolin, Yang, Jie
Format: Article
Language:English
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Computer vision
Least squares
Methods
Smoothing
State of the art
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Summary:Edge-preserving smoothing is a fundamental procedure for many computer vision and graphic applications. This can be achieved with either local methods or global methods. In most cases, global methods can yield superior performance over local ones. However, local methods usually run much faster than global ones. In this paper, we propose a new global method that embeds the bilateral filter in the least squares model for efficient edge-preserving smoothing. The proposed method can show comparable performance with the state-of-the-art global method. Meanwhile, since the proposed method can take advantages of the efficiency of the bilateral filter and least squares model, it runs much faster. In addition, we show the flexibility of our method which can be easily extended by replacing the bilateral filter with its variants. They can be further modified to handle more applications. We validate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method through comprehensive experiments in a range of applications.
ISSN:2331-8422