Adaptive block level bilateral filtering algorithm

Abstract

During the acquisition or transmission process, video images are subject to random signal interference and generate noise, which can hinder people's understanding of the image and subsequent processing work. Therefore, it is necessary to study video image denoising and filtering algorithms. Bilateral filter is one of many typical video image filtering algorithms. However, the traditional bilateral filter algorithm does not consider the differences in the contents of different regions of the image. It is difficult to obtain the optimal filtering effect by using a fixed filtering weight to filter the entire image, which leads to problems such as blurred image edges and inadequate details processing. This paper studies the influence of different filter block sizes on the bilateral filter effect, and proposes an algorithm to adaptively update the bilateral filter weight according to the block's variance. The experimental result shows that the performance of adaptive bilateral filter with different block sizes is expected to be better than that of traditional algorithms with fixed filter weights.