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Dr. V Masilamani
masila@iiitdm.ac.in
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
IIITDM Kancheepuram
Chennai-127
1 What is edge?
7 Acknowledgements
I Structural information of
object is more important than
the other information such as
colour
I Discontinuity in surface
normal of the object
I Discontinuity in depth
I Discontinuity in colour of the
surface of the object
I Discontinuity in light intensity
0 1
−1 0
I Similarly along Y dir (to detect vertical edge), the Prewit filter will
be
1 0 −1
Py = 1 0 −1
1 0 −1
I Edge Detection:
if( |∇(f (x, y ))| > T ) then E (x, y ) = 1
else E (x, y ) = 0
• Similarly along Y dir (to detect vertical edge), the Sobel filter will be
1 0 −1
Sy = 2 0 −2
1 0 −1
1
1 0 −1 ∗ 2
1
I Object detection
I Measure computation