9/14/2001
CS 461, Copyright G.D. Hager
Smoothing Plus Derivatives
•One problem with differences is that they by definition reduce the signal to noise ratio (can you show this?)
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•Recall smoothing operators (the Gaussian!) reduce noise.
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•Hence, an obvious way of getting clean images with derivatives is to combine derivative filtering and smoothing: e.g.
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–G * Dx * I = Dx * G * I