Abstract
Ridge and valley structures are important image features, especially in oriented textures. Usually, the extraction of these structures requires a prefiltering step to regularize the source image. In this paper, we show that classical diffusion-based filters are not always appropriate for this task and propose a new filtering process. This new filter can be interpreted as an example of introducing the intrinsic image structure in a diffusion process. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science (USA).
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 241-248 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Computer Vision and Image Understanding |
Volume | 84 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2001 |
Keywords
- PDEs
- Anisotropic diffusion
- Diffusion process
- Ridges
- Structure tensor
- Valleys