The bayesian operating point of the canny edge detector

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3409-3416

  Zhang, Yang ^a   Rockett, Peter I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian risk; Canny edge detector; Optimal operating point; Performance evaluation; ROC curves

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SENSORS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN RISK; CANNY EDGE DETECTOR; OPTIMAL OPERATING POINT;

EDGE DETECTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33750346736     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2006.881964     Document Type: Article

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