Effective peaking filter and its implementation on a programmable architecture

Peaking filters enhance the sharpness impression in video images, but are often complex and have some image quality drawbacks. We propose a peaking filter that combines a simple structure with good image quality. Thanks to this simple structure, our proposal is a good candidate for software implementation on a programmable architecture. We evaluated the performance on a 32-bit and a 64-bit multimedia processor.

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