Common name:

Smoothening filters

How It Works?
Basis for most smoothing methods  Image is smoothed by decreasing the disparity between pixel values by averaging nearby pixels.  Tends to retain the low frequency information while reducing the high frequency information.


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Original Image

Low ass Filtered Image

Common name:


Sharpening filters

How It Works?
Tends to retain the high frequency information while reducing the low frequency information  Kernal is designed to increase the brightness of the centre pixel relative to neighbouring pixels. The kernel array usually contains a single positive value at its centre, which is completely surrounded by negative values


Kernel of High ass filter

Original Image

Filtered image using high ass filter