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The scale of edges

  • School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Microsoft USA

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Abstract

Although the scale of isotropic visual elements such as blobs and interest points, e.g. SIFT[12], has been well studied and adopted in various applications, how to determine the scale of anisotropic elements such as edges is still an open problem. In this paper, we study the scale of edges, and try to answer two questions: 1) what is the scale of edges, and 2) how to calculate it. From the points of human cognition and physical interpretation, we illustrate the existence of the scale of edges and provide a quantitative definition. Then, an automatic edge scale selection approach is proposed. Finally, a cognitive experiment is conducted to validate the rationality of the detected scales. Moreover, the importance of identifying the scale of edges is also shown in applications such as boundary detection and hierarchical edge parsing.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2012
Pages462-469
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2012 - Providence, RI, United States
Duration: 16 Jun 201221 Jun 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
ISSN (Print)1063-6919

Conference

Conference2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityProvidence, RI
Period16/06/1221/06/12

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