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The steps of directional local contrast filtering: (a) The original frame. (b) The local median for a 50 × 50 pixel filtering window Vp. (c) Pixels that far exceed the local median brightness are marked as invalid (black in the image). (d) Invalid pixels are replaced with the local median values. This removes white spots and speckles.
