An efficient edge-based bilateral filter for restoring real noisy image.

This paper presents an efficient edge-based bilateral filter for real noisy image restoration. By dividing all pixels of a noisy image into edge region or non-edge region, the different strategies and parameters are adopted in the edgebased bilateral filter to balance the conservation of image features and the reduction of noise level. Extensive experimental results are shown that this filter achieves very competitive performance in restoring real noisy images, compared with other state-of-the-art denoising algorithm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]