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A fast and simple solution was suggested to reduce the inter-pixels correlations in natural images, of which the power spectra roughly fell off with the increasing spatial frequency f according to a power law; but the 1/f exponent, α, was different from image to image. The essential of the proposed method was to flatten the decreasing power spectrum of each image by using an adaptive low-pass and whitening filter. The act of low-pass filtering was just to reduce the effects of noise usually took place in the high frequencies. The act of whitening filtering was a special processing, which was to attenuate the low frequencies and boost the high frequencies so as to yield a roughly flat power spectrum across all spatial frequencies. The suggested method was computationally more economical than the geometric covariance matrix based PCA method. Meanwhile, the performance degradations accompanied with the computational economy improvement were fairly insignificant.
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 60373029 and the National Research Foundation for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China under Grant Nos. 20050004001.
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Liao, LZ., Luo, SW., Tian, M., Zhao, LW. (2006). Fast and Adaptive Low-Pass Whitening Filters for Natural Images. In: King, I., Wang, J., Chan, LW., Wang, D. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4233. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11893257_38
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