Sliding Window Filters and Edge Detection.pptVIP

Sliding Window Filters and Edge Detection Longin Jan Latecki Computer Graphics and Image Processing CIS 601 – Fall 2004 Binary Case Black pixels have value 0 White (background pixels) have value 1 Edge Detection What are edges in an image? Edges are those places in an image that correspond to object boundaries. Edges are pixels where image brightness changes abruptly. More About Edges An edge is a property attached to an individual pixel and is calculated from the image function behavior in a neighborhood of the pixel. It is a vector variable (magnitude of the gradient, direction of an edg