Singularity Theory and Phantom Edges in Scale Space

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1988, Pages 720-727

  Clark, James J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Catastrophe theory; edge detection; phantom edges; scale space; singularity theory

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING -- IMAGE ANALYSIS;

CATASTROPHE THEORY; IMAGE EDGE ANALYSIS; LEVEL-CROSSING PROBLEMS; PHANTOM EDGES IN SCALE SPACE; SINGULARITY THEORY;

VISION;

EID: 0024072402     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.6782     Document Type: Article

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