diff --git a/client/src/components/ColorSchemeDialog.vue b/client/src/components/ColorSchemeDialog.vue
index 874e8512..9a102e6c 100644
--- a/client/src/components/ColorSchemeDialog.vue
+++ b/client/src/components/ColorSchemeDialog.vue
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ watch(colorScheme, () => {
         <template #activator="{ props: tooltipProps }">
           <v-icon
             v-bind="{ ...modalProps, ...tooltipProps }"
-            size="25"
+            size="30"
           >
             mdi-palette
           </v-icon>
diff --git a/client/src/components/TransparencyFilterControl.vue b/client/src/components/TransparencyFilterControl.vue
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..db359ad1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/src/components/TransparencyFilterControl.vue
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+<script lang="ts">
+import { defineComponent } from "vue";
+import useState from "@use/useState";
+
+export default defineComponent({
+  name: "TransparencyFilterControl",
+  setup() {
+    const { transparencyThreshold } = useState();
+
+    return {
+      transparencyThreshold,
+    };
+  },
+});
+</script>
+
+<template>
+  <v-menu
+    location="bottom"
+    :close-on-content-click="false"
+    open-on-hover
+  >
+    <template #activator="{ props: menuProps }">
+        <v-badge
+        :content="`${transparencyThreshold}%`"
+        :model-value="transparencyThreshold > 0"
+        location="bottom right"
+        color="primary"
+        :offset-x="10"
+        >
+        <v-icon
+            v-bind="menuProps"
+            size="30"
+            class="mx-3"
+            :color="transparencyThreshold > 0 ? 'blue' : ''"
+        >
+            mdi-opacity
+        </v-icon>
+        </v-badge>
+    </template>
+    <v-card
+      min-width="200"
+    >
+      <v-card-title class="text-subtitle-1">
+        Noise Filter {{ transparencyThreshold }}%
+      </v-card-title>
+      <v-card-text>
+        <p>Removes amplitudes below the percentage</p>
+        <v-slider
+          v-model="transparencyThreshold"
+          min="0"
+          max="100"
+          step="1"
+          track-color="grey"
+          color="primary"
+          hide-details
+        >
+          <template #thumb-label="{ modelValue }">
+            {{ modelValue }}%
+          </template>
+        </v-slider>
+      </v-card-text>
+    </v-card>
+  </v-menu>
+</template>
+
diff --git a/client/src/components/geoJS/LayerManager.vue b/client/src/components/geoJS/LayerManager.vue
index 266952a0..e41225b1 100644
--- a/client/src/components/geoJS/LayerManager.vue
+++ b/client/src/components/geoJS/LayerManager.vue
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <script lang="ts">
-import { defineComponent, nextTick, onMounted, onUnmounted, PropType, Ref, ref, watch } from "vue";
+import { defineComponent, nextTick, onMounted, onUnmounted, PropType, Ref, ref, watch, computed } from "vue";
 import * as d3 from "d3";
 import { SpectrogramAnnotation, SpectrogramSequenceAnnotation } from "../../api/api";
 import {
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ export default defineComponent({
       drawingBoundingBox,
       boundingBoxError,
       fixedAxes,
+      transparencyThreshold,
     } = useState();
     const selectedAnnotationId: Ref<null | number> = ref(null);
     const hoveredAnnotationId: Ref<null | number> = ref(null);
@@ -726,6 +727,33 @@ export default defineComponent({
     const gValues = ref('');
     const bValues = ref('');
 
+
+    function getTransparencyTableValues() {
+      // transparencyThreshold is expected to be 0-100 (percentage)
+      // Convert to normalized 0-1
+      const t = (transparencyThreshold.value ?? 0) / 100;
+
+      // quick edge cases
+      if (t <= 0) {
+        // threshold 0% → everything visible (alpha=1)
+        return "1";
+      }
+      if (t >= 1) {
+        // threshold 100% → everything transparent (alpha=0)
+        return "0";
+      }
+      // number of discrete steps (higher = sharper but costlier)
+      const numSteps = 100;
+      // which index is the last 'transparent' bucket
+      const thresholdStep = Math.floor(t * (numSteps - 1));
+
+      const values: string[] = [];
+      for (let i = 0; i < numSteps; i++) {
+        // for i <= thresholdStep set transparent (0), else opaque (1)
+        values.push(i <= thresholdStep ? "0" : "1");
+      }
+      return values.join(" ");
+    }
     function updateColorFilter() {
       if (!backgroundColor.value.includes(',')) {
         // convert rgb(0 0 0) to rgb(0, 0, 0)
@@ -775,7 +803,6 @@ export default defineComponent({
 
     watch([backgroundColor, colorScheme], updateColorFilter);
 
-
     watch(fixedAxes, setAxes);
 
     return {
@@ -787,6 +814,7 @@ export default defineComponent({
       rValues,
       gValues,
       bValues,
+      getTransparencyTableValues,
     };
   },
 });
@@ -819,16 +847,45 @@ export default defineComponent({
     height="0"
     style="position: absolute; top: -1px; left: -1px;"
   >
-    <filter id="apply-color-scheme">
-      <!-- convert to grayscale -->
+    <filter id="svg-filters">
       <feColorMatrix
         type="saturate"
         values="0"
         result="grayscale"
       />
 
-      <!-- apply color scheme -->
-      <feComponentTransfer>
+      <feColorMatrix
+        in="grayscale"
+        type="matrix"
+        values="0.2126 0.7152 0.0722 0 0
+                0.2126 0.7152 0.0722 0 0
+                0.2126 0.7152 0.0722 0 0
+                0 0 0 1 0"
+        result="sourceGraphic"
+      />
+      
+      <feColorMatrix
+        in="sourceGraphic"
+        type="luminanceToAlpha"
+        result="luminance"
+      />
+      <feComponentTransfer
+        in="luminance"
+        result="transparency-mask">
+        <feFuncA
+          type="table"
+          :tableValues="getTransparencyTableValues()"
+        />
+      </feComponentTransfer>
+
+      <feComposite
+        in="grayscale"
+        in2="transparency-mask"
+        operator="in"
+        result="grayscale-with-transparency"
+      />
+
+      <feComponentTransfer in="grayscale-with-transparency">
         <feFuncR
           type="table"
           :tableValues="rValues"
diff --git a/client/src/components/geoJS/geoJSUtils.ts b/client/src/components/geoJS/geoJSUtils.ts
index 2d7bfe6b..a6b465c8 100644
--- a/client/src/components/geoJS/geoJSUtils.ts
+++ b/client/src/components/geoJS/geoJSUtils.ts
@@ -121,7 +121,11 @@ const useGeoJS = () => {
       });
     }
     clearQuadFeatures();
-    quadFeatureLayer.node().css("filter", "url(#apply-color-scheme)");
+    // Apply combined filter that includes:
+    // 1. Grayscale conversion
+    // 2. Transparency threshold (based on original pixel intensity)
+    // 3. Color scheme application
+    quadFeatureLayer.node().css("filter", "url(#svg-filters)");
     for (let i = 0; i < imageCount; i += 1) {
       quadFeatures.push(quadFeatureLayer.createFeature("quad"));
     }
diff --git a/client/src/use/useState.ts b/client/src/use/useState.ts
index b6250cbf..c8a44063 100644
--- a/client/src/use/useState.ts
+++ b/client/src/use/useState.ts
@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ const toggleFixedAxes = () => {
   fixedAxes.value = !fixedAxes.value;
 };
 
+const transparencyThreshold = ref(0); // 0-100 percentage
+
 type AnnotationState = "" | "editing" | "creating" | "disabled";
 export default function useState() {
   const setAnnotationState = (state: AnnotationState) => {
@@ -191,5 +193,6 @@ export default function useState() {
     scaledHeight,
     fixedAxes,
     toggleFixedAxes,
+    transparencyThreshold,
   };
 }
diff --git a/client/src/views/NABat/NABatSpectrogram.vue b/client/src/views/NABat/NABatSpectrogram.vue
index 9f0dbf86..7eb5fe35 100644
--- a/client/src/views/NABat/NABatSpectrogram.vue
+++ b/client/src/views/NABat/NABatSpectrogram.vue
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import ThumbnailViewer from "@components/ThumbnailViewer.vue";
 import useState from "@use/useState";
 import ColorPickerMenu from "@components/ColorPickerMenu.vue";
 import ColorSchemeSelect from "@components/ColorSchemeSelect.vue";
+import TransparencyFilterControl from "@/components/TransparencyFilterControl.vue";
 import RecordingInfoDialog from "@components/RecordingInfoDialog.vue";
 import RecordingAnnotations from "@components/RecordingAnnotations.vue";
 import { usePrompt } from '@use/prompt-service';
@@ -34,6 +35,7 @@ export default defineComponent({
     RecordingAnnotations,
     ColorPickerMenu,
     ColorSchemeSelect,
+    TransparencyFilterControl,
   },
   props: {
     id: {
@@ -463,6 +465,9 @@ export default defineComponent({
                 tooltip-text="Spectrogram background color"
               />
             </div>
+            <div class="mt-4 mr-3">
+              <transparency-filter-control />
+            </div>
           </v-row>
         </v-container>
       </v-toolbar>
diff --git a/client/src/views/Recordings.vue b/client/src/views/Recordings.vue
index 250f087b..82432180 100644
--- a/client/src/views/Recordings.vue
+++ b/client/src/views/Recordings.vue
@@ -192,10 +192,10 @@ export default defineComponent({
       return filterTagSet.intersection(itemTagSet).size > 0;
     };
     const sharedTagFilter: FilterFunction = (value: string, search: string, item?: InternalItem<Recording>) => {
-      if (filterTags.value.length === 0) {
+      if (sharedFilterTags.value.length === 0) {
         return true;
       }
-      const filterTagSet = new Set(filterTags.value);
+      const filterTagSet = new Set(sharedFilterTags.value);
       const itemTagSet = new Set(item?.raw.tags_text);
       return filterTagSet.intersection(itemTagSet).size > 0;
     };
diff --git a/client/src/views/Spectrogram.vue b/client/src/views/Spectrogram.vue
index abbcc4a2..ff870f24 100644
--- a/client/src/views/Spectrogram.vue
+++ b/client/src/views/Spectrogram.vue
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import ThumbnailViewer from "@components/ThumbnailViewer.vue";
 import RecordingList from "@components/RecordingList.vue";
 import OtherUserAnnotationsDialog from "@/components/OtherUserAnnotationsDialog.vue";
 import ColorSchemeDialog from "@/components/ColorSchemeDialog.vue";
+import TransparencyFilterControl from "@/components/TransparencyFilterControl.vue";
 import useState from "@use/useState";
 import RecordingInfoDialog from "@components/RecordingInfoDialog.vue";
 export default defineComponent({
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ export default defineComponent({
     RecordingList,
     OtherUserAnnotationsDialog,
     ColorSchemeDialog,
+    TransparencyFilterControl,
   },
   props: {
     id: {
@@ -546,6 +548,9 @@ export default defineComponent({
             <div class="mt-4">
               <color-scheme-dialog />
             </div>
+            <div class="mt-4 mr-3">
+              <transparency-filter-control />
+            </div>
           </v-row>
         </v-container>
       </v-toolbar>