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    Perona-Malik anisotropic filtering is a computer vision technique that reduces image noise without reducing image quality. It creates a parameterized family of blurred images through diffusion. Each image is a convolution of the original and a Gaussian filter. Anisotropic diffusion generalizes this by using a content-dependent filter. It defines diffusion using the Laplacian, gradient, and a diffusion coefficient controlling the rate. Perona and Malik proposed two functions for the coefficient, controlling edge sensitivity. The python code implements an alternate function and applies filtering to sample images, successfully reducing noise while maintaining sharp edges.

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    Perona-Malik anisotropic filtering is a computer vision technique that reduces image noise without reducing image quality. It creates a parameterized family of blurred images through diffusion. Each image is a convolution of the original and a Gaussian filter. Anisotropic diffusion generalizes this by using a content-dependent filter. It defines diffusion using the Laplacian, gradient, and a diffusion coefficient controlling the rate. Perona and Malik proposed two functions for the coefficient, controlling edge sensitivity. The python code implements an alternate function and applies filtering to sample images, successfully reducing noise while maintaining sharp edges.

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    Perona-Malik anisotropic filtering is a computer vision technique that reduces image noise without reducing image quality. It creates a parameterized family of blurred images through diffusion. Each image is a convolution of the original and a Gaussian filter. Anisotropic diffusion generalizes this by using a content-dependent filter. It defines diffusion using the Laplacian, gradient, and a diffusion coefficient controlling the rate. Perona and Malik proposed two functions for the coefficient, controlling edge sensitivity. The python code implements an alternate function and applies filtering to sample images, successfully reducing noise while maintaining sharp edges.

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    Perona-Malik Anisotropic Filtering: Machine Vision - RE4107 Dr. Colin Flanagan

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    Perona-Malik anisotropic filtering is a computer vision technique that reduces image noise without reducing image quality. It creates a parameterized family of blurred images through diffusion. Each image is a convolution of the original and a Gaussian filter. Anisotropic diffusion generalizes this by using a content-dependent filter. It defines diffusion using the Laplacian, gradient, and a diffusion coefficient controlling the rate. Perona and Malik proposed two functions for the coefficient, controlling edge sensitivity. The python code implements an alternate function and applies filtering to sample images, successfully reducing noise while maintaining sharp edges.

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    Perona-Malik Anisotropic Filtering

    Machine Vision – RE4107


    Dr. Colin Flanagan

    Group Members:

    Name ID
    Cian Conway 10126767
    Patrick Stapleton 10122834
    Ivan McCaffrey 10098119
    Introduction

    Perona-Malik diffusion or anisotropic diffusion is a computer vision filtering technique that


    aims at reducing image noise without reducing the image’s quality in the process. This
    diffusion technique typically resembles the process that creates a scale space, where an image
    generates a parameterized family of successively more and more blurred images based on a
    diffusion process. Each of the resulting images in this filter is given as a convolution between
    the image and a 2D isotropic Gaussian filter. This diffusion is a linear and space invariant
    transformation of the original image. Anisotropic diffusion is a much generalized version of
    the diffusion process. It produces a family of parameterized images where each resulting
    image is a combination between a filter that depends on the content of the original image and
    the original image itself. This means that anisotropic diffusion is a linear and space invariant
    transformation of the original image.

    Algorithm Properties

    Let Ω ⊂ R2 denote a subset of the plane and I(∙, t) → R be a family of greyscale images. With
    this, anisotropic diffusion can be defined as:

    Where, ∆ denotes Laplacian, ∇ denotes Gradient, div(…) is the divergence operator and
    c(x,y,t) is the diffusion coefficient. c(x,y,t) also controls the rate of the diffusion. When
    Perona and Malik pioneered the idea they proposed two functions for the diffusion
    coefficient:

    and

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    The constant K controls the sensitivity to edges and is usually chosen experimentally or as a
    function of the noise in the image.

    Comparison of “Stopping” Functions


    To implement an alternate stopping function, the following code should be implemented in
    the python program:

    def f(lam,b):
    func = 1/(1 + ((lam/b)**2))
    return func

    This code is commented into our program.

    Procedure

    This section contains the input and output from our python code. By viewing these images it
    is easy to see Perona-Malik anisotropic filtering in action. The images were taken from the
    sample images provided in the Sulis folder.

    Image 1: noisy_rect.png

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    Before

    After

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    Image 2: noisy_empire.png

    Before

    After

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    Conclusions
    It is obvious that the above images were successful in efficiently implementing Perona-Malik
    anisotropic diffusion. The above images clearly a show a significant noise reduction
    difference between the before and after images. Noise reduction was successfully achieved
    but it also important to note the edges and lines maintained their sharpness.

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