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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2014
Applicant:
Thomson Licensing, Issy de Moulineaux, FR;
Inventors:
Jobst Hoerentrup, Wennigsen, DE;
Markus Schlosser, Hannover, DE;
Assignee:
THOMSON LICENSING, Issy les Moulineaux, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/40 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 5/20 (2006.01); G06T 5/50 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/002 (2013.01); G06K 9/4609 (2013.01); G06T 5/20 (2013.01); G06T 5/50 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20028 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20182 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for filtering an image using a guided image filter are described. A filter computes a filtering output using a guidance image. For calculating the filtering output confidence values associated to a filter input are taken into account. A confidence-weighted averaging is performed using the confidence values.