Application of the Hough transform to correct for linear variation of background illumination in images

  • Authors:

  • M Nixon

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, S09 5NH, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition Letters
  • Year:
  • 1985

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Abstract

The Hough transform has been formulated to detect areas of linear brightness variation within an image. The formulation leads to significant computational advantage involving a restricted parameter search space. Two applications are included to demonstrate the efficacy of this technique.