Image Segmentation By Edge Tracing

Marion Lineberry

doi:10.1117/12.965986

17 March 1983 Image Segmentation By Edge Tracing

Marion Lineberry

Proceedings Volume 0359, Applications of Digital Image Processing IV; (1983) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.965986
Event: 26th Annual Technical Symposium, 1982, San Diego, United States

Abstract

This paper describes an image segmentation technique that has detection and classification applications in autonomous image analysis systems and compares it with current edge and region-based segmentation techniques. The technique, referred to as directed edge tracing, uses both edge magnitude and direction information to reduce segmentation problems commonly associated with segmenters based on edge thresholding. The edge tracing is carried out by examining pixels in a neighborhood of high probability boundary pixels, making the method locally adaptive to contrast changes along a boundary. No a priori knowledge of the number of segments expected or of the level of contrast between segments is required.

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Marion Lineberry "Image Segmentation By Edge Tracing", Proc. SPIE 0359, Applications of Digital Image Processing IV, (17 March 1983); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.965986

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