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    The Sobel operator is an image processing technique used in edge detection algorithms that approximates the gradient of an image intensity function by convolving the image with small separable integer filters in horizontal and vertical directions. It computes how abruptly or smoothly pixel values change to identify edges and their orientation in a computationally inexpensive manner using two 3x3 kernel matrices to estimate horizontal and vertical derivatives.

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    The Sobel operator is an image processing technique used in edge detection algorithms that approximates the gradient of an image intensity function by convolving the image with small separable integer filters in horizontal and vertical directions. It computes how abruptly or smoothly pixel values change to identify edges and their orientation in a computationally inexpensive manner using two 3x3 kernel matrices to estimate horizontal and vertical derivatives.

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    The Sobel operator is used in image processing, particularly within edge detection algorithms.

    Technically, it is a discrete differentiation operator, computing an approximation of the gradient of the image intensity function. The Sobel operator is based on convolving the image with a small, separable, and integer valued filter in horizontal and vertical direction and is therefore relatively inexpensive in terms of computations. The result therefore shows how "abruptly" or "smoothly" the image changes at that point, and therefore how likely it is that that part of the image represents an edge, as well as how that edge is likely to be oriented.

    Mathematically, the operator uses two 33 kernels which are convolved with the original image to calculate approximations of the derivatives - one for horizontal changes, and one for vertical. If we define A as the source image, and Gx and Gy are two images which at each point contain the horizontal and vertical derivative approximations, the computations are as follows:

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