Generating fuzzy edge images from gradient magnitudes

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 115, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1571-1580

  Lopez Molina, C ^a,b   De Baets, B ^b   Bustince, H ^a  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Edge detection; Fuzzy image processing; Image processing

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL IMAGE; EDGE IMAGE; FUZZY IMAGE PROCESSING; GRADIENT IMAGES; GRADIENT MAGNITUDE; INTERMEDIATE REPRESENTATIONS; MEMBERSHIP DEGREES;

EDGE DETECTION; FUZZY SET THEORY; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE PROCESSING;

MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS;

EID: 80052518193     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2011.07.003     Document Type: Article

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