edge preserving smoothing

1、Structure Extraction from Texture via Relative Total Variation
Li Xu     Qiong Yan     Yang Xia     Jiaya Jia
The Chinese Univeristy of Hong Kong
source code: http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~leojia/projects/texturesep/  (matlab)

advanced:using RElative total variation(RTV) map where meaningful structures are penalized much less than textures.
limitations: this can be more problematic with natural images and can result in details being overly smoothed.

2、Image Smoothing via L0 Gradient Minimization
Li Xu     Cewu Lu     Yi Xu     Jiaya Jia
The Chinese Univeristy of Hong Kong

source code:http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~leojia/projects/L0smoothing/index.html  (matlab)

 

3、Edge-Preserving Decompositions for Multi-Scale
Tone and Detail Manipulation
Zeev Farbman Raanan Fattal Dani Lischinski Richard Szeliski

source code: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~danix/epd/ (matlab)

 

4、Edge-preserving Multiscale Image Decompostion based on Local Extrema
Kartic Subr, Cyril Soler, Fredo Durand
To appear, Transactions on Graphics 2009 (SIGGRAPH Asia)

source code: http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/K.Subr/research.html (matlab)

https://github.com/drakeguan/cp11fall_project1

 

5、GradientShop: A Gradient-Domain Optimization Framework for Image and Video Filtering
source code: http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/gradientshop/  (c++)

 

6、Guided Image Filtering
Kaiming He, Jian Sun, and Xiaoou Tang
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), accepted

source code:http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kahe/  (matlab)