On the origin of the bilateral filter and ways to improve it

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1141-1151

  Elad, Michael ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Bayesian methods; Bilateral filtering; Jacobi algorithm; Robust estimation; Weighted least squares

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ADDITIVE NOISE; ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; BAYESIAN METHODS; BILATERAL FILTER; JACOBI ALGORITHM; ROBUST ESTIMATION;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING;

EID: 0036810576     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2002.801126     Document Type: Article

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