保持原有结构信息的图像增强方法。把scale space analysis和gradient domain image editing两个技术结合到一起。
Figure 1: Our approach takes as input an image (left), and allows a user to manipulate its structure in order to create abstracted or enhanced output images. Here we show a line drawing with line thickness proportional to their structural importance (middle), and a reconstruction of color information that focuses on the bee and removes detail around it (right).保持结构通过提取不同尺度下的边缘实现,如上面中间的图片,不同权重的边缘用不同粗细的线表示。处理中间的图像,即是否删掉某些的边缘信息,最后生成不同效果(抽象程度)的图像。如上面右图,保留蜜蜂部分的所有边缘,删掉周围的一些细节边缘(根据某个设定的阈值),就使蜜蜂清晰保留而删掉背景细节信息。
恢复图像用泊松方程求解,就是梯度域图像编辑技术。