APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SMOOTHING IMAGES

摘要

A method for acuity-preserving image smoothing including the steps of proceeding along a first dimension of received image pixels in a first direction and computing a first sequence of estimated pixel values (24); proceeding along the first dimension of received image pixels in a second opposite direction and computing a second sequence of estimated pixel values (26); and comparing (28) for each individual pixel along the first dimension, and adjacently preceding estimated pixel value in the first sequence of estimated pixel values to an adjacently preceding estimated pixel value in the second sequence of estimated pixel values, to thereby compute an improved pixel value for each individual pixel.