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Multi-scale selective image texture smoothing via intuitive single clicks.
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Signal Processing: Image Communication . Sep2021, Vol. 97, pN.PAG-N.PAG. 1p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Existing texture filtering techniques acquiesce in the removal of all undesired background texture patterns simultaneously, and lead to the disappearance of small-scale foreground structures. Differently, this paper considers both multi-scale structures and specified texture patterns within an image as significant image contents, and presents a content-aware texture filtering approach via an easy-to-use interactive interface, named intuitive single click. The user's effort on content-aware texture filtering is reduced to only locating a single click, where it is intuitively considered as one type of texture patterns. This simple interface is made possible by first generating three-scale intermediate filtered images (i.e., high, medium and low) and then performing breadth-first search (BFS) to identify one or more texture regions. Specifically, we utilize BFS to purify image edges in the medium-scale filtered image, on top of which a mask representing texture and non-texture regions is abstracted through the intuitive single-click texture locating and BFS. The mask is applied to effectively maintain multi-scale structures in the low-scale filtered image, and guides to fully smooth textures in the high-scale filtered image. Finally, a clean image is yielded by simply synthesizing the results of two mask operations in the low- and high-scale filtered images. We illustrate by extensive experiments that our approach advances the state-of-the-arts in terms of both the image cleanness and content-preserving ability. Our code is publicly available. • We propose a multi-scale texture filtering approach for fully removing textures while preserving image contents effectively. • We propose a texture-aware approach for segmenting an image into contents and texture regions. • We provide an easy-to-use interactive system for allowing users to removing different types of texture patterns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *TEXTURES
*EDGES (Geometry)
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09235965
- Volume :
- 97
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Signal Processing: Image Communication
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 151404250
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.image.2021.116357