Efficient approximation of Gaussian filters

  • Authors:
  • R. Rau;J.H. McClellan

  • Affiliations:
  • Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

This article presents improvements to the efficient approximation of Gaussian filters by sequentially applying uniform box filters. For 1-D filters, a simple and nearly optimal fit criterion for the length S of the box filters to the approximated Gaussian is given. For 2-D filters, a new method is introduced to improve the circular symmetry and the lowpass properties of the approximation without increasing the computational complexity. Finally, a multirate implementation for large Gaussian filters is presented that requires significantly fewer floating-point operations than the standard technique