Patent ID: 8139888

Claim:
A method for filtering an input image with a bilateral filter, wherein the bilateral filter includes a spatial filter and a range filter, comprising the steps of: constructing a set of power images from an input image including pixels, each pixel having an intensity, wherein the set of power images is denoted as I 1 =I(p), I 2 =I(p)I(p), . . . , (I(p)) n , and corresponding filter responses are y 1 Σf(k)I 1 (p+k), y 2 Σf(k)I 2 (p+k), . . . , y n Σf(k)I n (p+k), where I is the input image, and n is a number of power images in the set; applying, to each power image, the spatial filter to determine a response for the spatial filter and the corresponding power image; and combining the responses and the set of power images to produce a response for the bilateral filter.