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    The document discusses different methods for filtering noise in images, including mean filtering and Gaussian filtering. Mean filtering simply takes the average value of pixels within a window. Gaussian filtering also takes a weighted average but assigns less weight to pixels further from the center, approximating a Gaussian function. Increasing the standard deviation parameter σ in Gaussian filtering will result in more smoothing and blurring of the image. Mean filtering can sometimes be a bad idea if there are large intensity differences within the window.

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    The document discusses different methods for filtering noise in images, including mean filtering and Gaussian filtering. Mean filtering simply takes the average value of pixels within a window. Gaussian filtering also takes a weighted average but assigns less weight to pixels further from the center, approximating a Gaussian function. Increasing the standard deviation parameter σ in Gaussian filtering will result in more smoothing and blurring of the image. Mean filtering can sometimes be a bad idea if there are large intensity differences within the window.

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    Image Filtering

    Slides by Steve Seitz

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    Salvador Dali, Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea, which at 30


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    meters becomes the portrait of Abraham
    Lincoln, 1976

    Filtering noise
    How can we smooth away noise in an image?

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    Cross-correlation filtering
    Lets write this down as an equation. Assume the
    averaging window is (2k+1)x(2k+1):

    We can generalize this idea by allowing different


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    Whats the kernel for a 3x3 mean filter?

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    When can taking an un weighted mean be bad idea?

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