Derivative operator on smoothed images

Tieling Chen

doi:10.1117/12.769679

3 March 2008 Derivative operator on smoothed images

Tieling Chen

Proceedings Volume 6812, Image Processing: Algorithms and Systems VI; 68120M (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.769679
Event: Electronic Imaging, 2008, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Gradient operators are commonly used in edge detection. Usually, proper smoothing processing is performed on the original image when a gradient operator is applied. Generally, the smoothing processing is embedded in the gradient operator, such that each component of the gradient operator can be decomposed into some smoothing processing and a discrete derivative operator, which is defined as the difference of two adjacent values or the difference between the two values on the two sides of the position under check. When the image is smoothed, the edges of the main objects are also smoothed such that the differences of the adjacent pixels across edges are lowered down. In this paper, we define the derivative of f at a point x as f'(x)=g(x+Δx)-g(x-Δx), where g is the result of smoothing f with a smoothing filter, and Δx is an increment of x and it is properly selected to work with the filter. When Δx=2, sixteen gradient directions can be obtained and they provide a finer measurement than usual for gradient operators.

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Tieling Chen "Derivative operator on smoothed images", Proc. SPIE 6812, Image Processing: Algorithms and Systems VI, 68120M (3 March 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.769679

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