An effective edge-directed frequency filter for removal of aliasing in upsampled images

  • Authors:
  • Artur Rataj

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Theoretical and Applied Computer Science, Gliwice, Poland

  • Venue:
  • Machine Graphics & Vision International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Raster images can have a range of various distortions related to their raster structure. Their upsampling might in effect substantially reveal the raster structure of the original image, known as aliasing. The upsampling itself may introduce aliasing into the upsampled image as well. The presented method attempts to remove the aliasing using frequency filters based on discrete fast Fourier transform, and applied directionally in certain regions placed along the edges in the image. As opposed to some anisotropic smoothing methods, the presented algorithm aims to selectively reduce the aliasing only, preserving the sharpness of image details. The method can be used as a post processing filter along with various upsampling algorithms. It was experimentally shown that the method can improve the visual quality of the upsampled images.