K-AVE + GNN + Sobel = An effective, highly parallel edge detector approach

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3166, Issue , 1997, Pages 196-204

  Lam, Ka Po ^a   Furness, Anthony ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary enhancement; Cascaded precursor; Edge detection; Generalised nearest neighbour; Image parallelism; Image thresholding; Operator parallelism

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

BOUNDARY ENHANCEMENT; CASCADED PRECURSOR; GENERALISED NEAREST-NEIGHBOUR; IMAGE PARALLELISM; IMAGE THRESHOLDING; OPERATOR PARALLELISM;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 58749091698     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.279617     Document Type: Conference Paper

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