| image = | bilateral3dImg (inImg,inSpaceSigma,inRangeSigma) |
| image = | bilateral3dImg (inImg,inHalfKnlSize,inSpaceSigma,inRangeSigma) |
bilateral filter on 3d image
The bilateral filter is a non-linear smoothing filter that has good properties of edge-preserving. Each pixel value is replaced by a weighted average of the values of its neighbours. The weight is a product of two gaussian functions, one depending on the euclidian distance between the central pixel and its current neighbour, the other depending on the difference of the intensities of these 2 pixels.
On output image values are given by:
where:
is the weight function; ![$W(x, y, z, o_x, o_y, o_z)=f_S(o_x, o_y, o_z) \times f_R(|InImg[x, y, z]-InImg[{x+o_x, y+o_y, z+o_z}]|)$](form_437.png)
is the space function; 
is the range function; 
is defined by InOptHalfKnlSize attribute (if this attribute is not defined, then
equals to
)
is defined by InRangeSigma attribute
is defined by InSpaceSigma attributeInput and output images must have same size.
See Bilateral smoothing 2d for an illustration of bilateral filter applied to a 2d image.