Bilateral Filter、Cross/Joint Bilateral Filter

今天被问到cross bilateral Filter，虽然自己知道这肯定是一种滤波算法，但是究竟它和bilateral Filter有什么关系？觉得，作为一个图像处理研究者，一定要基础扎实，所以赶紧去看看！

NerdLand在Tech Stuff中描述提到“Joint Bilateral Filter is also referred to as Cross bilateral filter”。也就是说Both mean the same。 原来神乎其神的Cross Bilateral Filter（CBF）就是常见的Joint Bilateral Filter（JBF），JBF可是很常见的。

Low Pass Filtering
下面看下低通滤波（low pass filtering）。作者说，外行人称为smoothing（In layman’s language smoothing），哎，以后再也不敢叫smoothing了。
An image is fundamentally composed of two types of frequency component, low and high. Low frequency components signify smooth and constant regions where as high frequency components signify edges and corners. So a low pass filter passes low frequency components untouched but smooths the high frequency components. It is used to reduce noise. The typical kernel is a uniform or a Gaussian kernel. These kernels work very well in general but have issues near edges/boundaries. They include artifacts because the resulting value after smoothing at the boundary pixel comes from