@inproceedings{1b3159c46332465d87fd468c52db55bd,
title = "A multiscale approach to contour detection by texture suppression - art. no. 60640D",
abstract = "In this paper we propose a multiscale biologically motivated technique for contour detection by texture suppression. Standard edge detectors react to all the local luminance changes, irrespective whether they are due to the contours of the objects represented in the scene, rather than to natural texture like grass, foliage, water, etc. Moreover, edges due to texture are often stronger than edges due to true contours. This implies that further processing is needed to discriminate true contours from texture edges. In this contribution we exploit the fact that, in a multiresolution analysis, at coarser scales, only the edges due to object contours are present while texture edges disappear. This is used in combination with surround inhibition, a biologically motivated technique for texture suppression, in order to build a contour detector which is insensitive to texture. The experimental results show that our approach is also robust to additive noise.",
keywords = "contour detection, edge, multiscale analysis, surround inhibition, morphological analysis, texture, RECEPTIVE-FIELD INHIBITION, EDGE-DETECTION, ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION, SURROUND SUPPRESSION, BOUNDARY DETECTION, PERCEPTION, SCALE, V1",
author = "Giuseppe Papari and Patrizio Campisi and Nicolai Petkov and Alessandro Neri",
year = "2006",
language = "English",
isbn = "0-8194-6104-0",
series = "PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS (SPIE)",
publisher = "SPIE - INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING",
pages = "D640--D640",
editor = "ER Dougherty and JT Astola and KO Egiazarian and NM Nasrabadi and SA Rizvi",
booktitle = "Image Processing: Algorithms and Systems, Neural Networks, and Machine Learning",
note = "Conference on Image Processing - Algorithms and Systems, Neural Networks, and Machine Learning ; Conference date: 16-01-2006 Through 18-01-2006",
}