Edge detection is one of the most fundamental and important research fields in computer vision and image processing. This paper proposed a novel method, which focuses on edge fragments, not on individual pixels. The stability of each edge fragment, represented by the relative change of the skeleton over a given range of threshold, was analyzed to select the stable ones. The result of detection is a bunch of stable edge fragments in a forest structure, and the synthesis of them gives a single edge image. Experiments show that it is comparable with popular detectors in edge detection tasks, and it has got many particular advantages, like its stableness and fragment structure.

Date Published: 8 December 2011
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 8003, MIPPR 2011: Automatic Target Recognition and Image Analysis, 800309 (8 December 2011); doi: 10.1117/12.902802

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8003:
MIPPR 2011: Automatic Target Recognition and Image Analysis
Tianxu Zhang; Nong Sang, Editor(s)