A new edge detection method based on global evaluation using fuzzy 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, Olaso, Pablo, Gómez González, Daniel, Guada, 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:20.500.14352/13224
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/13224
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:519.7
Edge detection
Global evaluation
Supervised classification
Fuzzy clustering
Edge segments
Cibernética matemática
Teoría de conjuntos
1207.03 Cibernética
1201.02 Teoría Axiomática de Conjuntos
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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.