Abstract
Ridge and valley structures are important image features, especially in oriented textures. Usually, the extraction of these structures requires a prefiltering step to regularize the source image. In this paper, we show that classical diffusion-based filters are not always appropriate for this task and propose a new filtering process. This new filter can be interpreted as an example of introducing the intrinsic image structure in a diffusion process.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 241-248 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Computer Vision and Image Understanding |
Volume | 84 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 2002 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Software
- Signal Processing
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Keywords
- Anisotropic diffusion
- Diffusion process
- PDEs
- Ridges
- Structure tensor
- Valleys