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13.3.5.3.1 Arithmetic Mean
The arithmetic mean simply takes an average of the pixels in the kernel. Each element in the filter is equal to 1 divided by the total number of elements in the filter. Thus the 3x3 arithmetic mean filter is:

\begin{displaymath}\left[
\begin{array}{r r r}
\frac{1}{9} & \frac{1}{9} & \frac...
...rac{1}{9} & \frac{1}{9} & \frac{1}{9} \\
\end{array}
\right]
\end{displaymath}



David Blythe
1999-08-06