ICASSP 2006 - May 15-19, 2006 - Toulouse, France

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Paper:IMDSP-P12.5
Session:Feature Extraction and Analysis
Time:Thursday, May 18, 16:30 - 18:30
Presentation: Poster
Topic: Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing: Feature Extraction and Analysis
Title: An Analysis of Curvature Based Ridge and Valley Detection
Authors: Siva Chandra, Jayanthi Sivaswamy, International Institute of Information Technology, India
Abstract: A 2D function, representing a digital image, is a surface in 3D space. Curvature of such a surface can be exploited to detect ridge and valley like features from images. In this paper, we present an analysis of such curvature based ridge and valley detection techniques and come up with a description for the different classes of ridge and valley profiles which can be detected by them. Such an analysis helps in understanding the scope and limitations of the curvature based techniques. As curvature is a measure of 'bend' in the cross-section profile along a particular direction of the image intensities, the analysis is presented using 1D functions which represent cross-section profiles of ridges and valleys. The classes of profiles which can be detected by a curvature based technique are described in terms of the properties of the second-derivative of the 1D profile function.



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