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edges_image — Extract edges using Deriche, Lanser, Shen, or Canny filters.
edges_image detects step edges using recursively implemented filters (according to Deriche, Lanser and Shen) or the conventionally implemented “derivative of Gaussian” filter (using filter masks) proposed by Canny. Furthermore, a very fast variant of the Sobel filter can be used. Thus, the following edge operators are available:
'deriche1', 'lanser1', 'deriche1_int4', 'deriche2', 'lanser2', 'deriche2_int4', 'shen', 'mshen', 'canny', and 'sobel_fast'
(parameter Filter).
The edge amplitudes (gradient magnitude) are returned in ImaAmp.
For all filters except 'sobel_fast', the edge directions are returned in ImaDir. For 'sobel_fast', the edge direction is not computed to speed up the filter. Consequently, ImaDir is an empty image object. The edge operators 'deriche1' respectively 'deriche2' are also available for int4-images, and return the signed filter response instead of its absolute value. This behavior can be obtained for byte-images as well by selecting 'deriche1_int4' respectively 'deriche2_int4' as filter. This can be used to calculate the second derivative of an image by applying edges_image (with parameter 'lanser2') to the signed first derivative. Edge directions are stored in 2-degree steps, i.e., an edge direction of x degrees in mathematically positive sense and with respect to the horizontal axis is stored as x / 2 in the edge direction image. Furthermore, the direction of the change of intensity is taken into account. Let denote the image gradient. Then the following edge directions are returned as r/2:
The “filter width” (i.e., the amount of smoothing) can be chosen arbitrarily for all filters except 'sobel_fast' (where the filter width is 3x3 and Alpha is ignored), and can be estimated by calling info_edges for concrete values of the parameter Alpha. It decreases for increasing Alpha for the Deriche, Lanser and Shen filters and increases for the Canny filter, where it is the standard deviation of the Gaussian on which the Canny operator is based. “Wide” filters exhibit a larger invariance to noise, but also a decreased ability to detect small details. Non-recursive filters, such as the Canny filter, are realized using filter masks, and thus the execution time increases for increasing filter width. In contrast, the execution time for recursive filters does not depend on the filter width. Thus, arbitrary filter widths are possible using the Deriche, Lanser and Shen filters without increasing the run time of the operator. The resulting advantage in speed compared to the Canny operator naturally increases for larger filter widths. As border treatment, the recursive operators assume that the images to be zero outside of the image, while the Canny operator repeats the gray value at the image's border. The signal-noise-ratio of the filters is comparable for the following choices of Alpha:
Alpha('lanser1') = Alpha('deriche1'),
Alpha('deriche2') = Alpha('deriche1') / 2,
Alpha('lanser2') = Alpha('deriche2'),
Alpha('shen') = Alpha('deriche1') / 2,
Alpha('mshen') = Alpha('shen'),
Alpha('canny') = 1.77 / Alpha('deriche1').
The originally proposed recursive filters ('deriche1', 'deriche2',
'shen') return a biased estimate of the amplitude of diagonal
edges. This bias is removed in the corresponding modified version
of the operators ('lanser1', 'lanser2' and 'mshen'), while
maintaining the same execution speed.
For relatively small filter widths (11 x 11), i.e., for Alpha ('lanser2' = 0.5), all filters yield similar results. Only for “wider” filters differences begin to appear: the Shen filters begin to yield qualitatively inferior results. However, they are the fastest of the implemented operators --- closely followed by the Deriche operators.
edges_image optionally offers to apply a non-maximum-suppression (NMS = 'nms'/'inms'/'hvnms'; 'none' if not desired) and hysteresis threshold operation (Low,High; at least one negative if not desired) to the resulting edge image. Conceptually, this corresponds to the following calls:
nonmax_suppression_dir(...,NMS,...) und
hysteresis_threshold(...,Low,High,999,...).
Note that the hysteresis threshold operation is not applied if NMS is set to 'none'.
For 'sobel_fast', the same non-maximum-suppression is performed for all values of NMS except 'none'. Additionally, for 'sobel_fast' the resulting edges are thinned to a width of one pixel.
edges_image can be executed on OpenCL devices for the filter types 'canny' and 'sobel_fast'.
The OpenCL implementation of edges_image will generally compute results that differ somewhat from the CPU implementation.
Since edges_image uses Gauss convolution internally for the 'canny' filter, the same limitations for OpenCL apply as for derivate_gauss: Alpha must be chosen small enough that the required filter mask is less than 129 pixels in size.
Note that filter operators may return unexpected results if an image with a reduced domain is used as input. Please refer to the chapter Filters.
Input image.
Edge amplitude (gradient magnitude) image.
Edge direction image.
Edge operator to be applied.
Default value: 'canny'
List of values: 'canny', 'deriche1', 'deriche1_int4', 'deriche2', 'deriche2_int4', 'lanser1', 'lanser2', 'mshen', 'shen', 'sobel_fast'
List of values (for compute devices): 'canny', 'sobel_fast'
Filter parameter: small values result in strong smoothing, and thus less detail (opposite for 'canny').
Default value: 1.0
Suggested values: 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.7, 0.9, 1.1
Typical range of values: 0.2 ≤ Alpha ≤ 50.0
Minimum increment: 0.01
Recommended increment: 0.1
Restriction: Alpha > 0.0
Non-maximum suppression ('none', if not desired).
Default value: 'nms'
List of values: 'hvnms', 'inms', 'nms', 'none'
Lower threshold for the hysteresis threshold operation (negative, if no thresholding is desired).
Default value: 20
Suggested values: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40
Typical range of values: 1 ≤ Low ≤ 255
Minimum increment: 1
Recommended increment: 5
Restriction: Low > 1 || Low < 0
Upper threshold for the hysteresis threshold operation (negative, if no thresholding is desired).
Default value: 40
Suggested values: 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70
Typical range of values: 1 ≤ High ≤ 255
Minimum increment: 1
Recommended increment: 5
Restriction: High > 1 || High < 0 && High >= Low
read_image(Image,'fabrik') edges_image(Image,Amp,Dir,'lanser2',0.5,'none',-1,-1) hysteresis_threshold(Amp,Margin,20,30,30)
edges_image returns 2 (H_MSG_TRUE) if all parameters are correct and no error occurs during execution. If the input is empty the behavior can be set via set_system('no_object_result',<Result>). If necessary, an exception is raised.
threshold, hysteresis_threshold, close_edges_length
sobel_dir, frei_dir, kirsch_dir, prewitt_dir, robinson_dir
info_edges, nonmax_suppression_amp, hysteresis_threshold, bandpass_image
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S.Lanser: “Detektion von Stufenkanten mittels rekursiver Filter
nach Deriche”; Diplomarbeit; Technische Universität München,
Institut für Informatik, Lehrstuhl Prof. Radig; 1991.
J.Canny: “Finding Edges and Lines in Images”; Report, AI-TR-720;
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