Geometry of isophote curves

  • Authors:
  • André Diatta;Peter Giblin

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England;University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England

  • Venue:
  • Scale-Space'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Scale Space and PDE Methods in Computer Vision
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We consider the intensity surface of a 2D image, we study the evolution of the symmetry sets (and medial axes) of 1-parameter families of iso-intensity curves. This extends the investigation done on 1-parameter families of smooth plane curves (Bruce and Giblin, Giblin and Kimia, etc.) to the general case when the family of curves includes a singular member, as will happen if the curves are obtained by taking plane sections of a smooth surface, at the moment when the plane becomes tangent to the surface.