Joint image filtering with deep convolutional networks

Yijun Li, Jia Bin Huang, Narendra Ahuja, Ming Hsuan Yang

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Abstract

Joint image filters leverage the guidance image as a prior and transfer the structural details from the guidance image to the target image for suppressing noise or enhancing spatial resolution. Existing methods either rely on various explicit filter constructions or hand-designed objective functions, thereby making it difficult to understand, improve, and accelerate these filters in a coherent framework. In this paper, we propose a learning-based approach for constructing joint filters based on Convolutional Neural Networks. In contrast to existing methods that consider only the guidance image, the proposed algorithm can selectively transfer salient structures that are consistent with both guidance and target images. We show that the model trained on a certain type of data, e.g., RGB and depth images, generalizes well to other modalities, e.g., flash/non-Flash and RGB/NIR images. We validate the effectiveness of the proposed joint filter through extensive experimental evaluations with state-of-The-Art methods.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number8598855
Pages (from-to)1909-1923
Number of pages15
JournalIEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Volume41
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 1 2019
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Joint filtering
  • deep convolutional neural networks
  • depth upsampling

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Applied Mathematics

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