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In this paper we are concerned with robust structure-preserving denoising filters for color images. We build on a recently proposed transformation from the RGB color space to the space of symmetric \(2\times 2\) matrices that has already been used to transfer morphological dilation and erosion concepts from matrix-valued data to color images. We investigate the applicability of this framework to the construction of color-valued median filters. Additionally, we introduce spatial adaptivity into our approach by morphological amoebas that offer excellent capabilities for structure-preserving filtering. Furthermore, we define color-valued amoeba M-smoothers as a generalization of the median-based concepts. Our experiments confirm that all these methods work well with color images. They demonstrate the potential of our approach to define color processing tools based on matrix field techniques.
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Kleefeld, A., Breuß, M., Welk, M., Burgeth, B. (2015). Adaptive Filters for Color Images: Median Filtering and Its Extensions. In: Trémeau, A., Schettini, R., Tominaga, S. (eds) Computational Color Imaging. CCIW 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9016. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15979-9_15
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