BLADE: Filter learning for general purpose computational photography

Pascal Getreuer, Ignacio Garcia-Dorado, John Isidoro, Sungjoon Choi, Frank Ong, Peyman Milanfar

Abstract: The Rapid and Accurate Image Super Resolution (RAISR) method of Romano, Isidoro, and Milanfar is a computationally efficient image upscaling method using a trained set of filters. We describe a generalization of RAISR, which we name Best Linear Adaptive Enhancement (BLADE). This approach is a trainable edge-adaptive filtering framework that is general, simple, computationally efficient, and useful for a wide range of problems in computational photography. We show applications to operations which may appear in a camera pipeline including denoising, demosaicking, and stylization.