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The median filter is a technique of nonlinear digital filter, often used to reduce some kinds of image noise. However, in its original form it is limited in part by its algorithmic complexity, which has led to faster algorithm versions. Still, these variants are not completely able to use the modern hardware such as its parallel computing capabilities and diverse compute architectures, leaving room for accelerations. It is therefore proposed a parallel execution modification of one of these variants to obtain faster processing speed with bigger filter sizes and execution in different processing environments.
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Zaldivar, M.S. (2021). A Wide 2D Median Filter for GPU Devices. In: Hernández Heredia, Y., Milián Núñez, V., Ruiz Shulcloper, J. (eds) Progress in Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition. IWAIPR 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13055. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89691-1_35
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