# 2D Smoothing¶

This example shows how to use the pylops.Smoothing2D operator to smooth a multi-dimensional input signal along two given axes.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

import pylops

plt.close("all")


Define the input parameters: number of samples of input signal (N and M) and lenght of the smoothing filter regression coefficients ($$n_{smooth,1}$$ and $$n_{smooth,2}$$). In this first case the input signal is one at the center and zero elsewhere.

N, M = 11, 21
nsmooth1, nsmooth2 = 5, 3
A = np.zeros((N, M))
A[5, 10] = 1

Sop = pylops.Smoothing2D(nsmooth=[nsmooth1, nsmooth2], dims=[N, M], dtype="float64")
B = Sop * A


After applying smoothing, we will also try to invert it.

Aest = (Sop / B.ravel()).reshape(Sop.dims)

fig, axs = plt.subplots(1, 3, figsize=(10, 3))
im = axs[0].imshow(A, interpolation="nearest", vmin=0, vmax=1)
axs[0].axis("tight")
axs[0].set_title("Model")
plt.colorbar(im, ax=axs[0])
im = axs[1].imshow(B, interpolation="nearest", vmin=0, vmax=1)
axs[1].axis("tight")
axs[1].set_title("Data")
plt.colorbar(im, ax=axs[1])
im = axs[2].imshow(Aest, interpolation="nearest", vmin=0, vmax=1)
axs[2].axis("tight")
axs[2].set_title("Estimated model")
plt.colorbar(im, ax=axs[2])
plt.tight_layout()


Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 0.454 seconds)

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