Decomposing the Laplacian

  • Authors:
  • M. A. Piech

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

Correction is made and an elementary derivation is given of Clark's decomposition of the Laplacian Delta /sup 2/f(x,y) into a second directional derivative in the gradient direction of f, and a product of gradient magnitude by curvature of the level curve through f(x,y).