Progressive Refinement Bilateral Filter

In this paper, a coarse-to-fine framework for image noise removal is proposed. The bilateral filter is redefined by the manner of progressive refining to effectively eliminate noise, thus forming progressive refinement bilateral filter (PRBF), which estimates the pixel values of a noisy image through the method of progressive refinement with gradual recursion and its result retains more details, infinite close to the original image. PRBF is further integrated into the denoising model for the details processing again after denoising of the major part of the image. Our algorithm is evaluated and compared on two large standardized datasets and a number of selected images. The experimental results show that our algorithm consistently outperforms other approaches for image denoising and demonstrates the effectiveness of our framework for stereo matching.