Is there anyway to do gaussian filtering for an image(2D,3D) in pytorch?

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For anyone who has a problem implementing this here is a solution entirely written in pytorch:

# Set these to whatever you want for your gaussian filter
kernel_size = 15
sigma = 3

# Create a x, y coordinate grid of shape (kernel_size, kernel_size, 2)
x_cord = torch.arange(kernel_size)
x_grid = x_cord.repeat(kernel_size).view(kernel_size, kernel_size)
y_grid = x_grid.t()
xy_grid = torch.stack([x_grid, y_grid], dim=-1)

mean = (kernel_size - 1)/2.
variance = sigma**2.

# Calculate the 2-dimensional gaussian kernel which is
# the product of two gaussian distributions for two different
# variables (in this case called x and y)
gaussian_kernel = (1./(2.*math.pi*variance)) *\
                  torch.exp(
                      -torch.sum((xy_grid - mean)**2., dim=-1) /\
                      (2*variance)
                  )
# Make sure sum of values in gaussian kernel equals 1.
gaussian_kernel = gaussian_kernel / torch.sum(gaussian_kernel)

# Reshape to 2d depthwise convolutional weight
gaussian_kernel = gaussian_kernel.view(1, 1, kernel_size, kernel_size)
gaussian_kernel = gaussian_kernel.repeat(channels, 1, 1, 1)

gaussian_filter = nn.Conv2d(in_channels=channels, out_channels=channels,
                            kernel_size=kernel_size, groups=channels, bias=False)

gaussian_filter.weight.data = gaussian_kernel
gaussian_filter.weight.requires_grad = False

You probably want to keep the size of your input the same after it has been filtered. In that case just add some padding to the input (I use reflection padding).

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