Fast Bilateral Filter
Sylvain Paris and
Frédo Durand
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Papers
A Fast Approximation of the Bilateral Filter using a Signal Processing Approach
MIT technical report 2006 (MIT-CSAIL-TR-2006-073)
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A Fast Approximation of the Bilateral Filter using a Signal Processing Approach
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'06)
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Fast Bilateral Filtering for the Display of High-Dynamic-Range Images
ACM Transactions of Graphics (Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH'02 Conference)
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Code
• C++ •
The sources are in C++. The provided makefile compiles everything. To reproduce the running times of our paper, you need to compile with optimization options turned on. They are off by default because they depend on your machine. The README.txt file contains more details. To make the code easy to share, only PPM images are supported. Please, cite our paper if you use this code for your research work.
| Fast bilateral filter |
• full kernel (FFT convolution)
tar.gz |
zip • truncated kernel (faster, spatial convolution) tar.gz | zip • cross bilateral filter tar.gz | zip • color filtering tar.gz | zip |
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| Fast tone mapping | We use the code of our fast bilateral filter to implement a tone mapping operator inspired from this SIGGRAPH'02 paper by Frédo Durand and Julie Dorsey. This code is not an exact implementation of this paper. As such, it cannot be used for comparison between this paper and other tone-mapping techniques. The main differences are the bilateral filter (we use our ECCV'06 paper), the correction of the edges (it is not implemented in our code) and the gamma-correction (our code does it, the original does not). However, this code is fast and provides satisfying results. Feedback is welcome. |
| Some PPM files |
• gray-level images
tar.gz (9MB) |
zip (10MB) • color images tar.gz (9MB) | zip (9MB) |
Yuichi Takeda also kindly shares his C++ version based on OpenCV.
• Matlab •
Jiawen Chen has implemented our technique in Matlab. You can download the Matlab code from his webpage.
References
• Original Articles •
These articles independently discovered the bilateral filter.
Non-Linear Gaussian Filters Performing Edge Preserving Diffusion.
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Proceedings of the DAGM Symposium (DAGM'95).
1995.
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SUSAN -- A New Approach to Low Level Image Processing.
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International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV'97).
1997.
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Bilateral Filtering for Gray and Color Images.
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'98).
1998.
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• Acceleration Techniques •
These articles describe acceleration techniques for bilateral filtering. See our article for details.
On the Bilateral Filter and Ways to Improve It.
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IEEE Transactions On Image Processing (TIP'02).
2002.
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Separable Bilateral Filtering for Fast Video Preprocessing.
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IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME'05).
2005.
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Spatiotonal Adaptivity in Super-Resolution of Undersampled Image Sequences.
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Ph.D. Thesis (Delft University of Technology).
2006.
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Fast Median and Bilateral Filtering.
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ACM Transactions of Graphics (Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH'06 Conference).
2006.
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• Theoretical Studies and Extensions •
The following papers study theoretical aspects of bilateral filtering, often leading to a new processing technique. See our article for details.
Diffusions and Confusions in Signal and Image Processing.
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Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision.
2001.
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Local Mode Filtering.
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Proceedings of the conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'01).
2001.
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On the Bilateral Filter and Ways to Improve It.
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IEEE Transactions On Image Processing (TIP'02).
2002.
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A Fundamental Relationship between Bilateral Filtering, Adaptive Smoothing and the Nonlinear Diffusion Equation.
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IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI'02).
2002.
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The Trilateral Filter for High Contrast Images and Meshes.
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Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR'03).
2003.
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The Staircasing Effect in Neighborhood Filters and its Solution.
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IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP'06).
2006.
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Channel Smoothing: Efficient Robust Smoothing of Low-Level Signal Features.
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IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI'06).
2006.
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On Robust Estimation and Smoothing with Spatial and Tonal Kernels.
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A chapter of Geometric Properties from Incomplete Data, Springer.
2006.
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• Applications •
These articles describe applications buit upon bilateral filtering.
Fast Bilateral Filtering for the Display of High-Dynamic-Range Images.
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ACM Transactions of Graphics (Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH'02 Conference).
2002.
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Bilateral Mesh Denoising.
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ACM Transactions of Graphics (Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH'03 Conference).
2003.
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Non-Iterative, Feature-Preserving Mesh Smoothing.
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ACM Transactions of Graphics (Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH'03 Conference).
2003.
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Flash Photography Enhancement via Intrinsic Relighting.
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ACM Transactions of Graphics (Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH'04 Conference).
2004.
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Capture of Hair Geometry from Multiple Images.
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ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH'04 conference).
2004.
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Digital Photography with Flash and No-Flash Image Pairs.
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ACM Transactions of Graphics (Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH'04 Conference).
2004.
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Trilateral Filtering for Biomedical Images.
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Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI'04).
2004.
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Video Enhancement using Per-pixel Virtual Exposures.
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ACM Transactions of Graphics (Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH'05 Conference).
2005.
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Bilateral Filtering-based Optical Flow Estimation with Occlusion Detection.
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Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'06).
2006.
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Real-time Video Abstraction.
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ACM Transactions of Graphics (Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH'06 Conference).
2006.
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Two-scale Tone Management for Photographic Look.
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ACM Transactions of Graphics (Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH'06 Conference).
2006.
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Image-based Material Editing.
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ACM Transactions of Graphics (Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH'06 Conference).
2006.
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Particle Video: Long-Range Motion Estimation using Point Trajectories.
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Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR'06).
2006.
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