Adaptive smoothing respecting feature directions

  • Authors:
  • R. A. Carmona;Sifen Zhong

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Civil Eng. & Oper. Res., Princeton Univ., NJ;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Accurate extraction of the image feature directions is essential to image smoothing and other image processing tasks. We show that the gradient-based feature direction extraction method can be very erroneous. The gradient is too local, and it cannot detect oscillations. We have developed two new methods: the Hessian method, an approach using higher order differentiations, and the Gabor (1946) method, an approach using space-frequency analysis