An alternative curvature measure for topographic feature detection

Authors:
Jayanthi Sivaswamy;Gopal Datt Joshi;Siva Chandra
Affiliations:
Centre for Visual Information Technology, IIIT Hyderabad, India;Centre for Visual Information Technology, IIIT Hyderabad, India;Centre for Visual Information Technology, IIIT Hyderabad, India
Venue:
ICVGIP'06 Proceedings of the 5th Indian conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing
Year:
2006

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Abstract

The notion of topographic features like ridges, trenches, hills, etc. is formed by visualising the 2D image function as a surface in 3D space. Hence, properties of such a surface can be used to detect features from images. One such property, the curvature of the image surface, can be used to detect features characterised by a sharp bend in the surface. Curvature based feature detection requires an efficient technique to estimate/calculate the surface curvature. In this paper, we present an alternative measure for curvature and provide an analysis of the same to determine its scope. Feature detection algorithms using this measure are formulated and two applications are chosen to demonstrate their performance. The results show good potential of the proposed measure in terms of efficiency and scope.