Embodiments provide a filtering method and apparatus for recovering an anti-aliasing edge. The method includes: calculating, for a nonlinearly filtered image, a variance value of an area surrounding a current pixel used for identifying an edge of the image; and re-filtering the current pixel when the variance value is greater than a predefined first threshold value, so as to recover an anti-aliasing edge. With the embodiments of the present application, aliasing noises resulted from nonlinear transform may be alleviated, thereby recovering an anti-aliasing edge of a natural object.