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Fast high-dimensional bilateral and nonlocal means filtering

Nair, P and Chaudhury, KN (2019) Fast high-dimensional bilateral and nonlocal means filtering. In: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 28 (3). pp. 1470-1481.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2018.2878955

Abstract

Existing fast algorithms for bilateral and nonlocal means filtering mostly work with grayscale images. They cannot easily be extended to high-dimensional data such as color and hyperspectral images, patch-based data, and flow-fields. In this paper, we propose a fast algorithm for high-dimensional bilateral and nonlocal means filtering. Unlike existing approaches, where the focus is on approximating the data (using quantization) or the filter kernel (via analytic expansions), we locally approximate the kernel using weighted and shifted copies of a Gaussian, where the weights and shifts are inferred from the data. The algorithm emerging from the proposed approximation essentially involves clustering and fast convolutions, and is easy to implement. Moreover, a variant of our algorithm comes with a guarantee (bound) on the approximation error, which is not enjoyed by existing algorithms. We present some results for high-dimensional bilateral and nonlocal means filtering to demonstrate the speed and accuracy of our proposal. Moreover, we also show that our algorithm can outperform the state-of-the-art fast approximations in terms of accuracy and timing.

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Additional Information: The copyright for this article belongs to the Authors.
Keywords: Approximation algorithms; Image denoising; Spectroscopy, approximation; Bilateral filters; Fast algorithms; High-dimensional; kernel; Non-local means; Shiftability, Clustering algorithms
Department/Centre: Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Engineering
Date Deposited: 28 Oct 2022 05:41
Last Modified: 28 Oct 2022 05:41
URI: https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/77717

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