A Survey of Gaussian Convolution Algorithms

@article{Getreuer2013ASO,
  title={A Survey of Gaussian Convolution Algorithms},
  author={Pascal Getreuer},
  journal={Image Process. Line},
  year={2013},
  volume={3},
  pages={286-310}
}
  • Pascal Getreuer
  • Published 17 December 2013
  • Computer Science
  • Image Process. Line
Gaussian convolution is a common operation and building block for algorithms in signal and image processing. Consequently, its ecient computation is important, and many fast approximations have been proposed. In this survey, we discuss approximate Gaussian convolution based on nite impulse response lters, DFT and DCT based convolution, box lters, and several recursive lters. Since boundary handling is sometimes overlooked in the original works, we pay particular attention to develop it here. We… 
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