Tag Archives: digital signal processing

Study of smoothing filters – Savitzky-Golay filters

Posted on November 3, 2021 by bartwronski

Last week I saw Daniel Holden tweeting about Savitzky-Golay filters and their properties (less smoothing than a Gaussian filter) and I got excited… because I have never heard of them before and it’s an opportunity to learn something. When I … Continue reading →

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Practical Gaussian filtering: Binomial filter and small sigma Gaussians

Posted on October 31, 2021 by bartwronski

Gaussian filters are the bread and butter of signal and image filtering. They are isotropic and radially symmetric, filter out high frequencies extremely well, and just look pleasant and smooth. In this post I will cover two of my favorite … Continue reading →

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Processing aware image filtering: compensating for the upsampling

Posted on July 20, 2021 by bartwronski

This post summarizes some thoughts and experiments on “filtering aware image filtering” I’ve been doing for a while. The core idea is simple – if you have some “fixed” step at the end of the pipeline that you cannot control … Continue reading →

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Computing gradients on grids of pixels and voxels – forward, central, and… diagonal differences

Posted on February 28, 2021 by bartwronski

In this post, I will focus on gradients of image signals defined on grids in computer graphics and image processing. Specifically, gradients / derivatives of images, height fields, distance fields, when they are represented as discrete, uniform grids of pixels … Continue reading →

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Bilinear down/upsampling, aligning pixel grids, and that infamous GPU half pixel offset

Posted on February 15, 2021 by bartwronski

It’s been more than two decades of me using bilinear texture filtering, a few months since I’ve written about bilinear resampling, but only two days since I discovered a bug of mine related to it. 😅 Similarly, just last week … Continue reading →

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Converting wavetables to Ableton Operator AMS waves

Posted on January 5, 2021 by bartwronski

This blog post comes with Ableton Operator AMS “wavetables” here. In Ableton’s FM synth you can use different types of oscillator waves as your operators (both carriers as well as modulators), as well as draw custom ones: What is not … Continue reading →

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