The design and use of steerable filters

Author

Freeman, William T. ; Adelson, Edward H.

Author_Institution

Media Lab., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Volume

13

Issue

9

fYear

1991

fDate

9/1/1991 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

891

Lastpage

906

Abstract

The authors present an efficient architecture to synthesize filters of arbitrary orientations from linear combinations of basis filters, allowing one to adaptively steer a filter to any orientation, and to determine analytically the filter output as a function of orientation. Steerable filters may be designed in quadrature pairs to allow adaptive control over phase as well as orientation. The authors show how to design and steer the filters and present examples of their use in the analysis of orientation and phase, angularly adaptive filtering, edge detection, and shape from shading. One can also build a self-similar steerable pyramid representation. The same concepts can be generalized to the design of 3-D steerable filters

Keywords

adaptive filters; filtering and prediction theory; picture processing; adaptive filtering; design; edge detection; picture processing; shape from shading; steerable filters; Adaptive control; Adaptive filters; Image analysis; Image edge detection; Image motion analysis; Image processing; Image sequence analysis; Image texture analysis; Nonlinear filters; Shape;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0162-8828

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/34.93808

Filename

93808