A new edge detection approach based on Fuzzy segments clustering

Traditionally, the edge detection process requires one final step that is known as scaling. This is done to decide, pixel by pixel, if these will be selected as final edge or not. This can be considered as a local evaluation method that presents practical problems, since the edge candidate pixels sh...

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Autores: Flores Vidal, Pablo Arcadio, Gómez González, Daniel, Olaso Redondo, Pablo, Guada Escalona, Carely
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/113738
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/113738
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:004.9
Técnicas de la imagen
Investigación operativa (Estadística)
Estadística
2209.90 Tratamiento Digital. Imágenes
1209 Estadística
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Sumario:Traditionally, the edge detection process requires one final step that is known as scaling. This is done to decide, pixel by pixel, if these will be selected as final edge or not. This can be considered as a local evaluation method that presents practical problems, since the edge candidate pixels should not be considered as independent. In this article, we propose a strategy to solve these problems through connecting pixels that form arcs, that we have called segments. To accomplish this, our edge detection algorithm is based on a more global evaluation inspired by actual human vision. Our paper further develops ideas first proposed in Venkatesh and Rosin (Graph Models Image Process 57(2):146–160, 1995). These segments contain visual features similar to those used by humans, which lead to better comparative results against humans. In order to select the relevant segments to be retained, we use fuzzy clustering techniques. Finally, this paper shows that this fuzzy clustering of segments presents a higher performance compared to other standard edge detection algorithms.