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Image smoothing via L0gradient minimization
Abstract
We present a new image editing method, particularly effective for sharpening major edges by increasing the steepness of transition while eliminating a manageable degree of low-amplitude structures. The seemingly contradictive effect is achieved in an optimization framework making use of L0 gradient minimization, which can globally control how many non-zero gradients are resulted in to approximate prominent structure in a sparsity-control manner. Unlike other edge-preserving smoothing approaches, our method does not depend on local features, but instead globally locates important edges. It, as a fundamental tool, finds many applications and is particularly beneficial to edge extraction, clip-art JPEG artifact removal, and non-photorealistic effect generation.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Xu, L., Lu, C., Xu, Y., & Jia, J.
- Venue
- ACM Transactions on Graphics
- Published
- 2011-12
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1-12
- ISSN
- 0730-0301 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7368
- OpenAlex
- W2996868574
- Cited by
- 786
- References
- 39
- FWCI
- 28.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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