Edge Guided High Order Image Smoothing

Abstract

Edge-preserving smoothing has recently emerged as a valuable tool for a variety of applications in computer graphics and image processing. Edge-preserving smoothing using first order smoothness prior in the regularization term under optimization framework tends to bias the smoothing result forward the constant image. Although using high order smoothness prior can alleviate this problem, it tends to obtain the over-smoothed result. In this paper, we present an effective and practical image editing method which can sharply preserve the salient edges and at the same time smooths the continuous regions using high order smoothness prior to achieve the smoothing results different from the first order smoothness prior. Finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in the context of image denoising, image abstraction and image enhancement.