Fractional differentiation for edge detection

  • Authors:
  • B. Mathieu;P. Melchior;A. Oustaloup;Ch. Ceyral

  • Affiliations:
  • LAP-UMR 5131 CNRS, Université Bordeaux 1-ENSEIRB, 351 cours de la Libération, F33405 Talence cedex, France;LAP-UMR 5131 CNRS, Université Bordeaux 1-ENSEIRB, 351 cours de la Libération, F33405 Talence cedex, France;LAP-UMR 5131 CNRS, Université Bordeaux 1-ENSEIRB, 351 cours de la Libération, F33405 Talence cedex, France;LAP-UMR 5131 CNRS, Université Bordeaux 1-ENSEIRB, 351 cours de la Libération, F33405 Talence cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • Signal Processing - Special issue: Fractional signal processing and applications
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In image processing, edge detection often makes use of integer-order differentiation operators, especially order 1 used by the gradient and order 2 by the Laplacian. This paper demonstrates how introducing an edge detector based on noninteger (fractional) differentiation can improve the criterion of thin detection, or detection selectivity in the case of parabolic luminance transitions, and the criterion of immunity to noise, which can be interpreted in term of robustness to noise in general.