Contour and boundary detection improved by surround suppression of texture edges

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 609-622

  Grigorescu, Cosmin ^a   Petkov, Nicolai ^a   Westenberg, Michel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Canny; Context; Contour detection; Edge; Inhibition; Non classical receptive field; Region boundary; Surround suppression; SUSAN; Texture

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BOUNDARY DETECTION; CONTOUR DETECTION; NON CLASSICAL RECEPTIVE FIELD; SURROUND SUPPRESSION; SUSAN;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 2342630518     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2003.12.004     Document Type: Article

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