Bilateral filtering using fuzzy-median for image manipulations

This paper presents a novel bilateral filtering using fuzzy-median for image manipulations such as denoising and tone mapping. Our proposed bilateral filtering consists of the standard bilateral filter and the estimation of the pixel values by the fuzzy median filter. We have applied the proposed fuzzy filtering for image denoising with both the impulse and Gaussian random noise, which achieves better results than the bilateral filtering based denoising approaches, the Perona-Maliks anisotropic diffusion filter, the fuzzy vector median filter and the non-local means filter. Further, we develop the tone mapping algorithm of high dynamic range images incorporating the proposed fuzzy filtering, which does not introduce unpleasant visual halo artifacts.