Bilateral filtering has gained a high awareness level in medical image processing and non-destructive testing. Bilateral filtering method is that it allows for considering both the spatial locality and neighbouring points with similar amplitudes at the same time which make it can better preserving the image edges and textures than the conventional linear filtering algorithms. This paper illustr...

The speckle effect inevitably exists in the image of the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The removal of the speckle noise is the necessary approach before automatic partition, classification, target detection and abstraction of other quantitative special information in the SAR image, so it is very meaningful to eliminate or furthest restrain the speckle noises when the spatial resolution of the...

Quick sort algorithm is studied thoroughly, a new incomplete quick sort algorithm is designed, and then a novel image median filtering algorithm based on incomplete quick sort algorithm is proposed to improve the filtering speed. The new algorithm considers in detail the characteristic of image median filtering (In median filtering algorithm, the sorting operation of all pixel values is not nec...

Median filtering detection has recently drawn much attention in image editing and image anti-forensic techniques. Current image median filtering forensics algorithms mainly extract features manually. To deal with the challenge of detecting median filtering from small-size and compressed image blocks, by taking into account of the properties of median filtering, we propose a median filtering det...

Joint image filters can leverage the guidance image as a prior and transfer the structural details from the guidance image to the target image for suppressing noise or enhancing spatial resolution. Existing methods rely on various kinds of explicit filter construction or handdesigned objective functions. It is thus difficult to understand, improve, and accelerate them in a coherent framework. I...

Edge preserving filters aim to simplify the representation of images (e.g., by reducing noise or eliminating irrelevant detail) while preserving their most significant edges. These filters are typically nonlinear and locally smooth the image structure while minimizing both blurring and over-sharpening of visually important edges. Here we present the Alternating Guided Filter (AGF) that achieves...

We exploit the recurrence of structures at different locations, orientations and scales in an image to perform denoising. While previous methods based on “nonlocal filtering” identify corresponding patches only up to translations, we consider more general similarity transformations. Due to the additional computational burden, we break the problem down into two steps: First, we extract similarit...

The process of using one image to guide the filtering process of another one is called Guided Image Filtering (GIF). The main challenge of GIF is the structure inconsistency between the guidance image and the target image. Besides, noise in the target image is also a challenging issue especially when it is heavy. In this paper, we propose a general framework for Robust Guided Image Filtering (R...