@inproceedings{8811ea2b944546078a5c91845431a9a5,
title = "An optimized implementation architecture for the Kuwahara filter",
abstract = "This paper proposes an efficient and optimized architecture for the hardware implementation of the Kuwahara filter, which is used for edge-preserving noise removal of images. The algorithmic strength of the Kuwahara algorithm has been greatly reduced by various optimizations in the variance computation. A hybrid serial-parallel architecture is designed which takes advantage of the proposed optimizations. This results in a time and hardware efficient architecture. A comparative study of the proposed and traditional implementation has been done to demonstrate the efficacy of the architecture.",
keywords = "Edge detection, Kuwahara filter, noise removal, non-linear filter, parallel architecture, serial architecture",
author = "Talla Vamsi and Nimish Kulshrestha and Mishra, \{Amit Kumar\}",
year = "2013",
month = feb,
day = "25",
doi = "10.1109/ICIT.2013.6505821",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-4673-4567-5",
series = "Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology",
publisher = "IEEE Press",
pages = "1075--1079",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT 2013",
address = "United States of America",
note = "2013 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT 2013 ; Conference date: 25-02-2013 Through 28-02-2013",
}