A gentle introduction to bilateral filtering and its applications

  • Authors:
  • Sylvain Paris;Pierre Kornprobst;Jack Tumblin;Frédo Durand

  • Affiliations:
  • Adobe Systems, Inc.;INRIA, ENS, ENPC, France;Northwestern University;Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 classes
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The bilateral filter is a non-linear technique that can blur an image while respecting strong edges. Its ability to decompose an image into different scales without causing haloes after modification has made it ubiquitous in computational photography applications such as tone mapping, style transfer, relighting, and desnoising. This text provides a graphical, intuitive introduction to bilateral filtering, a practical guide for efficient implementation, an overview of its numerous applications, as well as mathematical analysis.