Adaptive Nonlocal Filtering: A Fast Alternative to Anisotropic Diffusion for Image Enhancement
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چکیده
Nonlinear anisotropic diffusion algorithms provide significant improvement in image enhancement as compared to linear filters. However, the excessive computational cost of solving nonlinear PDEs precludes their use in real-time vision applications. In the present paper, we show that two orders of magnitude speed improvement is provided by a new image filtering paradigm in which an adaptively determined vector field specifies nonlocal application points for an image filter.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.
دوره 21 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1999