Title :
Hypercomplex color-sensitive smoothing filters
Author :
Evans, Carolyn J. ; Sangwine, Stephen J. ; Ell, Todd A.
Author_Institution :
Oxford Univ., UK
Abstract :
In this paper we present a new color-sensitive low pass filter that may he tuned to smooth the color image component in the direction of the color C1. A new method for detecting the boundaries of C1-colored objects using the color-sensitive smoothing filter is also presented. We demonstrate the color-sensitive smoothing filter and edge detection procedure on both synthetic and natural color images
Keywords :
edge detection; image colour analysis; low-pass filters; smoothing methods; boundaries detection; color-sensitive smoothing filters; edge detection; hypercomplex filter; low pass filter; natural color images; synthetic color images; Color; Councils; Filtering; Gray-scale; Image edge detection; Low pass filters; Nonlinear filters; Object detection; Quaternions; Smoothing methods;
Conference_Titel :
Image Processing, 2000. Proceedings. 2000 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6297-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICIP.2000.901015
