Using Angular Dispersion of Gradient Direction for Detecting Edge Ribbons

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1993, Pages 682-696

  Gregson, P H ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive thresholding; angular dispersion; edge detection; gradient direction; signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION;

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING; EDGE RIBBON DETECTION; GRADIENT ANGULAR DISPERSION DETECTION ALGORITHM; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0027624858     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.221169     Document Type: Article

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