Automatic scale detection

Dongwei Chen; John G. Harris; Andrew F. Laine

doi:10.1117/12.233313

27 February 1996 Automatic scale detection

Dongwei Chen, John G. Harris, Andrew F. Laine

Proceedings Volume 2727, Visual Communications and Image Processing '96; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.233313
Event: Visual Communications and Image Processing '96, 1996, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Most image processing and computer vision algorithms assume knowledge of the proper spatial scale in the image. We propose an automatic technique that adaptively sets the proper spatial scale based on the size of local features in the image. We discuss an analog VLSI circuit implementation that uses this method to automatically determine the proper scale based on a dynamic system model that continuously searches scale space. Though this technique is motivated by analog circuit concepts, we show results for a digital implementation for image enhancements of mammograms. Digital implementations must discretize the scale space and perform an optimization over this finite set.

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Dongwei Chen, John G. Harris, and Andrew F. Laine "Automatic scale detection", Proc. SPIE 2727, Visual Communications and Image Processing '96, (27 February 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.233313

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