ADAPTIVE BILATERAL FILTER FOR SHARPNESS ENHANCEMEN
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In this paper, we present the adaptive bilateral
filter (ABF) for sharpness enhancement and noise removal. The ABF sharpens an
image by increasing the slope of the edges without producing overshoot or
undershoot. It is an approach to sharpness enhancement that is fundamentally
different from the unsharp mask (USM). This new approach to slope restoration
also differs significantly from previous slope restoration algorithms in that
the ABF does not involve detection of edges or their orientation, or extraction
of edge profiles. In the ABF, the edge slope is enhanced by transforming the
histogram via a range filter with adaptive offset and width. The ABF is able to
smooth the noise, while enhancing edges and textures in the image. The
parameters of the ABF are optimized with a training procedure. ABF restored
images are significantly sharper than those restored by the bilateral filte