Kernel Integral Images: A Framework for Fast Non-Uniform Filtering

Abstract

Integral images are commonly used in computer vision and computer graphics applications. Evaluation of box filters via integral images can be performed in constant time, regardless of the filter size. Although Heckbert (1986) extended the integral image approach for more complex filters, its usage has been very limited, in practice. In this paper, we present an extension to integral images that allows for application of a wide class of non-uniform filters. Our approach is superior to Heckbertpsilas in terms of precision requirements and suitability for parallelization. We explain the theoretical basis of the approach and instantiate two concrete examples: filtering with bilinear interpolation, and filtering with approximated Gaussian weighting. Our experiments show the significant speedups we achieve, and the higher accuracy of our approach compared to Heckbertpsilas.

Cite

Text

Hussein et al. "Kernel Integral Images: A Framework for Fast Non-Uniform Filtering." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2008. doi:10.1109/CVPR.2008.4587641

Markdown

[Hussein et al. "Kernel Integral Images: A Framework for Fast Non-Uniform Filtering." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2008.](https://mlanthology.org/cvpr/2008/hussein2008cvpr-kernel/) doi:10.1109/CVPR.2008.4587641

BibTeX

@inproceedings{hussein2008cvpr-kernel,
  title     = {{Kernel Integral Images: A Framework for Fast Non-Uniform Filtering}},
  author    = {Hussein, Mohamed E. and Porikli, Fatih and Davis, Larry S.},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  year      = {2008},
  doi       = {10.1109/CVPR.2008.4587641},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/cvpr/2008/hussein2008cvpr-kernel/}
}