Adaptive Kuwahara filter

Abstract

A new filter was created by improving the standard Kuwahara filter. It allows more efficient noise reduction without blurring the edges and image preparation for segmentation and further analyses operations. One of the biggest and most common restrictions encountered in filter algorithms is the need for a declarative definition of the filter window size or the number of iterations that an operation should be repeated. In the case of the proposed solution, we are dealing with automatic adaptation of the algorithm to the local environment of each pixel in the processed image.