We are working on a project where we are going to do image processing on Apache Hadoop. We want to speed up the computation by splitting up images into smaller parts (the images are very large), apply any filters in Fourier domain on each part, then convert back to spatial domain before merging all parts together. We know how to filtering in spatial domain by padding each part with pixels from neighbors (according to the mask size). Does this also apply if filtering is done in the frequency domain?
Mathematically, I think we would lose some of the lower frequencies, but blurring an image vs. blurring all regions independently shouldn't be so much different?