Reducing aliasing in images: a PDE-based diffusion revisited

  • Authors:
  • Djemel Ziou;Alain Horé

  • Affiliations:
  • MOIVRE, Département d'informatique, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, 2500 Boulevard de l'Université, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada J1K 2R1;MOIVRE, Département d'informatique, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, 2500 Boulevard de l'Université, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada J1K 2R1

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a new diffusion algorithm that can be used for reducing aliasing on both step edges and lines. It derives from the diffusion model of Perona and Malik, and works as an adaptive level-curve method in which diffusion is carried out in the normal direction of the gradient for step edges, while the eigenvalues of the Hessian matrix are used for lines. To get sharp images, we use high-pass filters to preserve as much as possible the high frequency content while diffusing. Experimental tests using grayscale and colour images show that our algorithm efficiently reduces aliasing.