Bilateral Filter

Computer Graphics · Denoising · bilateral-filter.yaml

Weights a blur by similarity in depth, normal and colour as well as distance, so it smooths within a surface but not across its boundaries.

• supersedescorrects · extends
• classifiesspecializes · part-of
• substitutes forapproximates · alternative-to
• depends onrequires · validates

Colour is the family; a dashed line is the second member of it.

This node

• correctsfixes a defect in Monte Carlo Integrationtrades a little bias for a large drop in variance

Referenced by

• approximatesA-Trous Wavelet Filter is a cheaper stand-in for thiswide support in a few sparse passes, not one big kernel

References

• Background — Bilateral filter on Wikipedia