An edge detection technique using local smoothing and statistical hypothesis testing

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 849-872

  Qiu, Peihua ^a   Bhandarkar, Suchendra M ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b 415 Boyd Grad Studs Res Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Edge detection; Image processing; Statistical hypothesis testing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

GRAY SCALE IMAGE; LOCAL SMOOTHING; ROOF EDGES; STATISTICAL HYPOTHESIS TESTING; STEP EDGES;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 0030194653     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-8655(96)00040-2     Document Type: Article

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