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Multi-scale selective image texture smoothing via intuitive single clicks
- Source :
- Signal Processing: Image Communication. 97:116357
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 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.
- Subjects :
- Computer science
business.industry
Interface (computing)
ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION
020206 networking & telecommunications
02 engineering and technology
Texture (music)
Image (mathematics)
Image texture
Texture filtering
Signal Processing
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Code (cryptography)
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
Computer vision
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial intelligence
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
business
Scale (map)
Software
Smoothing
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09235965
- Volume :
- 97
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Signal Processing: Image Communication
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........80bff1946dc48999f9da708ad6eda605