Edge detection through information fusion using fuzzy and evidential reasoning concepts

Basel Solaiman; Laurent Lecornu; Christian Roux

doi:10.1117/12.381639

3 April 2000 Edge detection through information fusion using fuzzy and evidential reasoning concepts

Basel Solaiman, Laurent Lecornu, Christian Roux

Proceedings Volume 4051, Sensor Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications IV; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.381639
Event: AeroSense 2000, 2000, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The main topic of this study concerns edge detection using information fusion approaches. Edge detection methods are based on first and second order local operations followed by a thresholding and edge tracking techniques. In this study, an intermediate fuzzy-evidential conceptual level is introduced between the gray level and edge detection symbolic information level. From the image, evidences concerning edges and regions are extracted using fuzzy membership functions as well as contextual information. The proposed approach can be decomposed into two steps: (1) application of evidential reasoning approach in order to compute a basic masse function, (2) edge detection process based on the use of an iterative algorithm, exploiting the contextual information and a belief masse function. Masse function computation is based on the use of edge and region fuzzy membership functions of each pixel in the analyzed scene. The main interest of this step is to consider membership functions as being observed evidences instead of image gray level values. The key idea of the second step is to use all the information about regions, edges and contextual data in the edge extraction process. Obtained results are encouraging and the proposed methodology is shown to be robust to different noisy environments.

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Basel Solaiman, Laurent Lecornu, and Christian Roux "Edge detection through information fusion using fuzzy and evidential reasoning concepts", Proc. SPIE 4051, Sensor Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications IV, (3 April 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.381639

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