Noise Reduction and Edge Enhancement Based on Band-Pass Epsilon-filter

  • Authors:
  • Mitsuharu Matsumoto;Shuji Hashimoto

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICIME '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Information Management and Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Band-pass bilateral filter is an improved bilateral filter which does not have low-pass characteristics but has band-pass characteristics to enhance image contrast around edges. However, the computation time is relatively large due to Gaussian calculation in all pixels. To reduce the calculation cost, we look to a nonlinear filter called epsilon-filter and propose an advanced epsilon-filter which does not have low-pass charactersitics but has band-pass characteristics to enhance the image contrast around edge, namely band-pass epsilon-filter. Due to its simple design, the calculation cost is relatively small the same as epsilon-filter. To show the effectiveness of the proposed method, we also report the results of some comparative experiments concerning the filter characteristics and computational cost.