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ConservativeSmoothing Class

Conservative smoothing.
Inheritance Hierarchy
SystemObject
  Accord.Imaging.FiltersBaseUsingCopyPartialFilter
    Accord.Imaging.FiltersConservativeSmoothing

Namespace:  Accord.Imaging.Filters
Assembly:  Accord.Imaging (in Accord.Imaging.dll) Version: 3.8.0
Syntax
public class ConservativeSmoothing : BaseUsingCopyPartialFilter
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The ConservativeSmoothing type exposes the following members.

Constructors
  NameDescription
Public methodConservativeSmoothing
Initializes a new instance of the ConservativeSmoothing class.
Public methodConservativeSmoothing(Int32)
Initializes a new instance of the ConservativeSmoothing class.
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Properties
Methods
  NameDescription
Public methodApply(Bitmap)
Apply filter to an image.
(Inherited from BaseUsingCopyPartialFilter.)
Public methodApply(BitmapData)
Apply filter to an image.
(Inherited from BaseUsingCopyPartialFilter.)
Public methodApply(UnmanagedImage)
Apply filter to an image in unmanaged memory.
(Inherited from BaseUsingCopyPartialFilter.)
Public methodApply(UnmanagedImage, UnmanagedImage)
Apply filter to an image in unmanaged memory.
(Inherited from BaseUsingCopyPartialFilter.)
Public methodApplyInPlace(Bitmap)
Apply filter to an image.
(Inherited from BaseUsingCopyPartialFilter.)
Public methodApplyInPlace(BitmapData)
Apply filter to an image.
(Inherited from BaseUsingCopyPartialFilter.)
Public methodApplyInPlace(UnmanagedImage)
Apply filter to an unmanaged image.
(Inherited from BaseUsingCopyPartialFilter.)
Public methodApplyInPlace(Bitmap, Rectangle)
Apply filter to an image or its part.
(Inherited from BaseUsingCopyPartialFilter.)
Public methodApplyInPlace(BitmapData, Rectangle)
Apply filter to an image or its part.
(Inherited from BaseUsingCopyPartialFilter.)
Public methodApplyInPlace(UnmanagedImage, Rectangle)
Apply filter to an unmanaged image or its part.
(Inherited from BaseUsingCopyPartialFilter.)
Public methodEquals
Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object.
(Inherited from Object.)
Protected methodFinalize
Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection.
(Inherited from Object.)
Public methodGetHashCode
Serves as the default hash function.
(Inherited from Object.)
Public methodGetType
Gets the Type of the current instance.
(Inherited from Object.)
Protected methodMemberwiseClone
Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.
(Inherited from Object.)
Protected methodProcessFilter
Process the filter on the specified image.
(Overrides BaseUsingCopyPartialFilterProcessFilter(UnmanagedImage, UnmanagedImage, Rectangle).)
Public methodToString
Returns a string that represents the current object.
(Inherited from Object.)
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Extension Methods
  NameDescription
Public Extension MethodHasMethod
Checks whether an object implements a method with the given name.
(Defined by ExtensionMethods.)
Public Extension MethodIsEqual
Compares two objects for equality, performing an elementwise comparison if the elements are vectors or matrices.
(Defined by Matrix.)
Public Extension MethodTo(Type)Overloaded.
Converts an object into another type, irrespective of whether the conversion can be done at compile time or not. This can be used to convert generic types to numeric types during runtime.
(Defined by ExtensionMethods.)
Public Extension MethodToTOverloaded.
Converts an object into another type, irrespective of whether the conversion can be done at compile time or not. This can be used to convert generic types to numeric types during runtime.
(Defined by ExtensionMethods.)
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Remarks

The filter implements conservative smoothing, which is a noise reduction technique that derives its name from the fact that it employs a simple, fast filtering algorithm that sacrifices noise suppression power in order to preserve the high spatial frequency detail (e.g. sharp edges) in an image. It is explicitly designed to remove noise spikes - isolated pixels of exceptionally low or high pixel intensity (salt and pepper noise).

If the filter finds a pixel which has minimum/maximum value compared to its surrounding pixel, then its value is replaced by minimum/maximum value of those surrounding pixel. For example, lets suppose the filter uses kernel size of 3x3, which means each pixel has 8 surrounding pixel. If pixel's value is smaller than any value of surrounding pixels, then the value of the pixel is replaced by minimum value of those surrounding pixels.

The filter accepts 8 bpp grayscale images and 24/32 bpp color images for processing.

Sample usage:

// create filter
ConservativeSmoothing filter = new ConservativeSmoothing( );
// apply the filter
filter.ApplyInPlace( image );

Initial image:

Result image:

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