Automatic gradient threshold determination for edge detection

  • Authors:
  • P. V. Henstock;D. M. Chelberg

  • Affiliations:
  • Sch. of Electr. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

We describe a method to automatically find gradient thresholds to separate edge from nonedge pixels. A statistical model that is the weighted sum of two gamma densities corresponding to edge and nonedge pixels is used to identify a threshold. Results closely match human perceptual thresholds even under low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) levels