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Improving Gabor Noise
August 2011 (vol. 17 no. 8)
pp. 1096-1107
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Ares Lagae, Sylvain Lefebvre, Philip Dutré, "Improving Gabor Noise," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 1096-1107, August, 2011.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TVCG.2010.238,
author = {Ares Lagae and Sylvain Lefebvre and Philip Dutré},
title = {Improving Gabor Noise},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
volume = {17},
number = {8},
issn = {1077-2626},
year = {2011},
pages = {1096-1107},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2010.238},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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JO - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
TI - Improving Gabor Noise
IS - 8
SN - 1077-2626
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A1 - Ares Lagae,
A1 - Sylvain Lefebvre,
A1 - Philip Dutré,
PY - 2011
KW - Procedural noise
KW - sparse convolution noise
KW - Gabor noise
KW - isotropic Gabor kernel
KW - circular Gabor filter
KW - Hankel transform
KW - circularly symmetric functions
KW - Gabor noise error analysis
KW - spatially varying Gabor noise.
VL - 17
JA - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
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Ares Lagae, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee and REVES/INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
Sylvain Lefebvre, REVES/INRIA Sophia-Antipolis and ALICE/INRIA Nancy, Nancy
Philip Dutré, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee
We have recently proposed a new procedural noise function, Gabor noise, which offers a combination of properties not found in the existing noise functions. In this paper, we present three significant improvements to Gabor noise: 1) an isotropic kernel for Gabor noise, which speeds up isotropic Gabor noise with a factor of roughly two, 2) an error analysis of Gabor noise, which relates the kernel truncation radius to the relative error of the noise, and 3) spatially varying Gabor noise, which enables spatial variation of all noise parameters. These improvements make Gabor noise an even more attractive alternative for the existing noise functions.

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Index Terms:
Procedural noise, sparse convolution noise, Gabor noise, isotropic Gabor kernel, circular Gabor filter, Hankel transform, circularly symmetric functions, Gabor noise error analysis, spatially varying Gabor noise.
Citation:
Ares Lagae, Sylvain Lefebvre, Philip Dutré, "Improving Gabor Noise," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 1096-1107, Aug. 2011, doi:10.1109/TVCG.2010.238
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