From dd421dcc80e14157a0a4e8f6f557201b425713ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Johannes=20Sch=C3=B6nberger?= <hannesschoenberger@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:32:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add note about range of values of sigma_range parameter

---
 skimage/filter/_denoise.pyx | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/skimage/filter/_denoise.pyx b/skimage/filter/_denoise.pyx
index bda46b0d..b60a5a85 100644
--- a/skimage/filter/_denoise.pyx
+++ b/skimage/filter/_denoise.pyx
@@ -68,7 +68,9 @@ def denoise_bilateral(image, int win_size=5, sigma_range=None,
     sigma_range : float
         Standard deviation for grayvalue/color distance (radiometric
         similarity). A larger value results in averaging of pixels with larger
-        radiometric differences.
+        radiometric differences. Note, that the image will be converted using
+        the `img_as_float` function and thus the standard deviation is in
+        respect to the range `[0, 1]`.
     sigma_spatial : float
         Standard deviation for range distance. A larger value results in
         averaging of pixels with larger spatial differences.