The canny edge detector revisited

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 251-261

  McIlhagga, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Edge detectors; Human vision; Optimal; Scale space

Indexed keywords

CANNY CRITERIA; CANNY EDGE DETECTORS; EDGE DETECTORS; GAUSSIAN EDGE; GAUSSIANS; HUMAN VISION; MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSIONS; MULTIPLE SCALE; OPTIMAL; OPTIMAL DETECTORS; SCALE SELECTION; SCALE SPACE; SIGNAL TO NOISE; STEP EDGE; TWO-DIMENSION;

EDGE DETECTION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DETECTORS;

EID: 79851514855     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: 15731405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11263-010-0392-0     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Bracewell, R. N. (1986). The Fourier transform and its applications. New York: McGraw-Hill.
2. G. J. Burton IR Moorhead 1987 Color and spatial structure in natural scenes Applied Optics 26 157 170 10.1364/AO.26.000157
3. J. Canny 1986 A computational approach to edge detection IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Image Processing 8 6 679 698
4. R. Deriche 1987 Using Canny's criteria to derive a recursively implemented optimal edge detector International Journal of Computer Vision 1 2 167 187 10.1007/BF00123164
5. J. Elder S. Zucker 1998 Local scale control for edge detection and blur estimation IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 20 7 699 716 10.1109/34.689301 (Pubitemid 128744855)
6. J. Elder 1999 Are Edges Incomplete? International Journal of Computer Vision 34 97 122 10.1023/A:1008183703117 (Pubitemid 30526153)
7. D. Field 1987 Relations between the statistics of natural images and the response properties of cortical cells Journal of the Optical Society of America A 4 2379 2394 10.1364/JOSAA.4.002379
8. M. A. Georgeson K. A. May T. C. A. Freeman G. S. Hesse 2007 From filters to features: Scale-space analysis of edge and blur coding in human vision Journal of Vision 7 13 1 21 10.1167/7.13.7
9. D. V. Hinkley 1969 On the ratio of two correlated normal random variables Biometrika 56 635 639 0183.48101 10.1093/biomet/56.3.635 254946
10. J. Koplowitz V. Greco 1994 On the edge location error for local maximum and zero-crossing edge detectors IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Image Processing 16 12 1207 1212
11. T. Lindeberg 1998 Edge detection and ridge detection with automatic scale selection International Journal of Computer Vision 30 2 117 154 10.1023/A:1008097225773 (Pubitemid 128517918)
12. G. Marsaglia 1965 Ratios of normal variables and ratios of sums of uniform variables Journal of the American Statistical Association 60 193 204 0126.35302 10.2307/2283145 178490
13. G. Marsaglia 2006 Ratios of normal variables Journal of Statistical Software 16 4 1 10 (Pubitemid 43823777)
14. K. May M. Georgeson 2007 Blurred edges look faint, and faint edges look sharp Vision Research 47 1705 1720 10.1016/j.visres.2007.02.012 (Pubitemid 46755853)
15. T. Peli D. Malah 1982 A study of edge detection algorithms Computer Graphics and Image Processing 20 1 21 0532.68083 10.1016/0146-664X(82)90070-3
16. S. Sarkar K. L. Boyer 1991 On optimal infinite impulse response edge detection filters IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis Machine Intelligence 13 1154 1171 10.1109/34.103275
17. J. Shen S. Castan 1992 An optimal linear operator for step edge detection Graphical Models and Image Processing 54 112 133 10.1016/1049-9652(92)90060-B
18. J. Shen 1995 Multi-edge detection by isotropical 2-D ISEF cascade Pattern Recognition 28 1871 1885 10.1016/0031-3203(95)00056-9
19. Y. Tadmor D. J. Tolhurst 1993 Both the phase and the amplitude spectrum may determine the appearance of natural images Vision Research 33 1 141 145 10.1016/0042-6989(93)90067-7 (Pubitemid 23032231)
20. H. Tagare R. deFigueiredo 1990 On the localization performance measure and edge detection IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Image Processing 12 12 1186 1190
21. M. J. Wainwright 1999 Visual adaptation as optimal information transmission Vision Research 39 3960 3974 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00101-7 (Pubitemid 29378319)
22. M. A. Webster M. Georgeson S. M. Webster 2002 Neural adjustments to image blur Nature Neuroscience 5 9 839 840 10.1038/nn906 (Pubitemid 34976646)
23. Witkin, A. P. (1983). Scale-space filtering. In Proceedings of the 8th international joint conference on artificial intelligence (pp. 1019-1022).
24. D. Ziou S. Tabbone 1998 Edge detection techniques-an overview International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis 8 537 559