Efficacy of Gaussian smoothing in Canny edge detector

Electronics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 19, 2000, Pages 1615-1616

  Cope, R K ^a   Rockett, P I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL FILTERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CANNY EDGE DETECTORS; GAUSSIAN SMOOTHING; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 0034648547     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20001138     Document Type: Article

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