Edit Propagation via Edge-Aware Filtering

This paper presents a novel framework for efficiently propagating the stroke-based user edits to the regions with similar colors and locations in high resolution images and videos. Our framework is based on the key observation that the edit propagation intrinsically can also be achieved by utilizing recently proposed edge-preserving filters. Therefore, instead of adopting the traditional global optimization which may involve a time-consuming solution, our algorithm propagates edits with the aid of the edge-preserve filters. Such a propagation scheme has low computational complexity and supports multiple kinds of strokes for more flexible user interactions. Further, our method can be easily and efficiently implemented in GPU. The experimental results demonstrate the efficiency and user-friendliness of our approach.