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The Fast Bilateral Solver

arXiv 1511.03296 ↗First posted 10 Nov 2015cs.CVcited by 86

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Abstract (arXiv)

We present the bilateral solver, a novel algorithm for edge-aware smoothing that combines the flexibility and speed of simple filtering approaches with the accuracy of domain-specific optimization algorithms. Our technique is capable of matching or improving upon state-of-the-art results on several different computer vision tasks (stereo, depth superresolution, colorization, and semantic segmentation) while being 10-1000 times faster than competing approaches. The bilateral solver is fast, robust, straightforward to generalize to new domains, and simple to integrate into deep learning pipelines.

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  11. 2021Decoupled Dynamic Filter Networkscited by 52
  12. 2022NeRF-In: Free-Form NeRF Inpainting with RGB-D Priorscited by 43
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  8. 2024Bilateral Guided Radiance Field Processingcited by 28
  9. 2022Learning Graph Regularisation for Guided Super-Resolutioncited by 27
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  11. 2023u-LLaVA: Unifying Multi-Modal Tasks via Large Language Modelcited by 24
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  18. 2022Online Domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation in Ever-Changing Conditionscited by 16
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  20. 2023Unsupervised Object Localization in the Era of Self-Supervised ViTs: A Surveycited by 16
  21. 2021Learning Co-segmentation by Segment Swapping for Retrieval and Discoverycited by 15
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  23. 2023Visual Dependency Transformers: Dependency Tree Emerges from Reversed Attentioncited by 12
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  26. 2024Test-Time Intensity Consistency Adaptation for Shadow Detectioncited by 11
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  29. 2023Decomposed Guided Dynamic Filters for Efficient RGB-Guided Depth Completioncited by 10
  30. 2021SKIing on Simplices: Kernel Interpolation on the Permutohedral Lattice for Scalable Gaussian Processescited by 9
  31. 2023Multi-granularity Interaction Simulation for Unsupervised Interactive Segmentationcited by 9
  32. 2021Wavelet Transform-assisted Adaptive Generative Modeling for Colorizationcited by 8
  33. 2023Direction-aware Video Demoireing with Temporal-guided Bilateral Learningcited by 8
  34. 2023NDDepth: Normal-Distance Assisted Monocular Depth Estimation and Completioncited by 8
  35. 2023PaintSeg: Training-free Segmentation via Paintingcited by 7
  36. 2022A Low Memory Footprint Quantized Neural Network for Depth Completion of Very Sparse Time-of-Flight Depth Mapscited by 6
  37. 2022Modeling the Lighting in Scenes as Style for Auto White-Balance Correctioncited by 6
  38. 2024Slicer Networkscited by 6

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