1. Edge-preserving multiscale image decomposition based on local extrema
- Author
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Kartic Subr, Frédo Durand, Cyril Soler, Acquisition, representation and transformations for image synthesis (ARTIS), Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann (LJK), Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), ANR-07-BLAN-0331,HFIBMR,High-Fidelity Image-Based Modeling and Rendering(2007), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Durand, Fredo
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Computer science ,Property (programming) ,ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION ,ACM: I.: Computing Methodologies/I.4: IMAGE PROCESSING AND COMPUTER VISION/I.4.3: Enhancement/I.4.3.0: Filtering ,02 engineering and technology ,computer.software_genre ,Image (mathematics) ,Computational photography ,Computer graphics (images) ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Computer vision ,Mathematics ,image decomposition ,Multimedia ,business.industry ,ACM: I.: Computing Methodologies/I.3: COMPUTER GRAPHICS/I.3.5: Computational Geometry and Object Modeling/I.3.5.7: Physically based modeling ,020207 software engineering ,Contrast (music) ,Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design ,Computational photography (artistic) ,Maxima and minima ,[INFO.INFO-TI]Computer Science [cs]/Image Processing [eess.IV] ,Key (cryptography) ,computational photography ,020201 artificial intelligence & image processing ,Artificial intelligence ,Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution ,business ,Maxima ,computer ,Algorithm - Abstract
We propose a new model for detail that inherently captures oscillations , a key property that distinguishes textures from individual edges. Inspired by techniques in empirical data analysis and morphological image analysis, we use the local extrema of the input image to extract information about oscillations: We define detail as oscillations between local minima and maxima. Building on the key observation that the spatial scale of oscillations are characterized by the density of local extrema, we develop an algorithm for decomposing images into multiple scales of superposed oscillations. Current edge-preserving image decompositions assume image detail to be low contrast variation. Consequently they apply filters that extract features with increasing contrast as successive layers of detail. As a result, they are unable to distinguish between high-contrast, fine-scale features and edges of similar contrast that are to be preserved. We compare our results with existing edge-preserving image decomposition algorithms and demonstrate exciting applications that are made possible by our new notion of detail.
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- 2009