Edge/Structure-Preserving Texture Filter via Relative Bilateral Filtering With a Conditional Constraint

doi:10.1109/LSP.2021.3095835

Edge/Structure-Preserving Texture Filter via Relative Bilateral Filtering With a Conditional Constraint

2021-01-01

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DOI：10.1109/LSP.2021.3095835

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Image texture filtering plays an essential role in computer vision tasks. However, it remains challenging in determining the tradeoff between over-smoothing in weak large-scale textures (with low-amplitude gradients) and under-smoothing in strong small-scale textures (with high-amplitude gradients) for images with complex patterns. Inspired by scale-space theory and intensive experiments, a relative bilateral filter with a conditional constraint (RBFC) is presented to address the issue. This filter utilizes the relative bilateral filter (RBF) as one local regularization to capture and suppress weak large-scale textures from the prominent edges/structures. Meanwhile, a conditional sparse constraint is responsible for discovering and suppressing strong small-scale textures in the gradient domain. To solve the nonconvex problem in RBFC, a numerical approximation to the optimization is derived and a novel solution by decomposing into two subproblems is proposed. Qualitative and quantitative experiments show that the proposed method is effective and superior to the state-of-the-art methods in preserving image smoothness.

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Image smoothing

relative bilateral filter

conditional constraint

hybrid L-0 - L-1 variational model

Edge/Structure-Preserving Texture Filter via Relative Bilateral Filtering With a Conditional Constraint

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