BUILT-IN MATHEMATICA SYMBOL

PeronaMalikFilter

PeronaMalikFilter[image]
applies a Perona-Malik diffusion filter to image.

specifies the amount of diffusion t to be applied.

uses a conductance parameter k.

applies a Gaussian regularization of width

to the image gradient in the conductance function.

Perona-Malik filtering is an inhomogeneous diffusion method typically used for smoothing images while preserving edges.

PeronaMalikFilter works on arbitrary grayscale or multichannel images, operating on each channel separately.

The function of the -regularized gradient norm defines the conductance of the diffusion current. At edges where the gradient norm is large in comparison to k, diffusion is suppressed, thereby preserving edges.

In PeronaMalikFilter, t parameterizes the evolution of the diffusion and thereby the spatial range of the filter.

The conductance parameter k can take any positive value. The default value of k is Automatic, which assigns to k the 50% quantile of the gradient norm of image. If more than one channel is present, the gradient norm of the channel average is taken into account.

The regularization parameter is the standard deviation of the Gaussian kernel , with which the image gradient is convolved. The -regularization makes the conductance term less susceptible to noise. If , a finite difference scheme is used to determine the gradient.