Shape-dependent canny edge detector

Optical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Panetta, Karen A ^a   Agaian, Sos S ^b   Nercessian, Shahan C ^c   Almunstashri, Ali A ^b  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at San Antonio   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer vision systems; Edge detection; Image segmentation; One dimensional kernel generalizations; Shapedependent kernels

Indexed keywords

CANNY EDGE DETECTORS; COMPUTER VISION SYSTEM; EDGE DETECTION ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION FILTERS; EDGE DETECTORS; EDGE FUSION; EDGE LOCALIZATION; EDGE RESPONSE; FILTER SIZES; FIXED SIZE; GENERALIZED EDGE DETECTORS; IMAGE DATA; INPUT IMAGE; KERNEL APPROACHES; LOCALIZATION ERRORS; NOISE REJECTION; NOISE SENSITIVITY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL KERNEL GENERALIZATIONS; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SHAPEDEPENDENT KERNELS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; DETECTORS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 81355135935     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3613941     Document Type: Article

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