gradients and edges
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Points of sharp change in an image are interesting: change in reflectance change in object change in illumination noise Sometimes called edge points. General strategy determine image gradient - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
Gradients and edges
• Points of sharp change in an image are interesting:– change in reflectance– change in object– change in illumination– noise
• Sometimes called edge points
• General strategy– determine image gradient
– now mark points where gradient magnitude is particularly large wrt neighbours (ideally, curves of such points).
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
There are three major issues: 1) The gradient magnitude at different scales is different; which should we choose? 2) The gradient magnitude is large along thick trail; how do we identify the significant points? 3) How do we link the relevant points up into curves?
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
Smoothing and Differentiation
• Issue: noise– smooth before differentiation– two convolutions to smooth, then differentiate?– actually, no - we can use a derivative of Gaussian filter
• because differentiation is convolution, and convolution is associative
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
The scale of the smoothing filter affects derivative estimates, and alsothe semantics of the edges recovered.
1 pixel 3 pixels 7 pixels
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
The Laplacian of Gaussian
• Another way to detect an extremal first derivative is to look for a zero second derivative
• Appropriate 2D analogy is rotation invariant– the Laplacian
• Bad idea to apply a Laplacian without smoothing– smooth with Gaussian, apply
Laplacian– this is the same as filtering
with a Laplacian of Gaussian filter
• Now mark the zero points where there is a sufficiently large derivative, and enough contrast
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
sigma=2
sigma=4
contrast=1 contrast=4LOG zero crossings
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
We still have unfortunate behaviourat corners
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
We wish to mark points along the curve where the magnitude is biggest.We can do this by looking for a maximum along a slice normal to the curve(non-maximum suppression). These points should form a curve. There arethen two algorithmic issues: at which point is the maximum, and where is thenext one?
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
Non-maximumsuppression
At q, we have a maximum if the value is larger than those at both p and at r. Interpolate to get these values.
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
Predictingthe nextedge point
Assume the marked point is an edge point. Then we construct the tangent to the edge curve (which is normal to the gradient at that point) and use this to predict the next points (here either r or s).
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
Remaining issues
• Check that maximum value of gradient value is sufficiently large– drop-outs? use hysteresis
• use a high threshold to start edge curves and a low threshold to continue them.
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
Notice
• Something nasty is happening at corners• Scale affects contrast• Edges aren’t bounding contours
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
fine scalehigh threshold
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
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coarse scale,high threshold
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
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coarsescalelowthreshold
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
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Orientation representations
• The gradient magnitude is affected by illumination changes– but it’s direction isn’t
• We can describe image patches by the swing of the gradient orientation
• Important types:– constant window
• small gradient mags– edge window
• few large gradient mags in one direction
– flow window• many large gradient mags
in one direction– corner window
• large gradient mags that swing
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
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Representing Windows
• Types– constant
• small eigenvalues– Edge
• one medium, one small– Flow
• one large, one small– corner
• two large eigenvalues
H I I Twindow
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
Harris Corner detector• Le regioni uniformi hanno tutti I gradienti uniformi• I bordi lineari hanno tutti i gradienti allineati• gli angoli sono I punti di congiunzione di due bordi e
quindi avra` I gradienti attorno allineati lungo due direttrici fondamentali
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
Harris Corner detector
• Tutti e due gli auovalori di H sono > 0• Rilevatore di angoli Harris: gli angoli sono massimi locali
della funzione R=det(H)-kTr(H)2
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Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
Edge Linking
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
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Hough Transform
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
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Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
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Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
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Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
Computer Vision - A Modern ApproachSet: Linear Filters
Slides by D.A. Forsyth
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