A general framework for low level vision
- 1 March 1998
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
- Vol. 7 (3) , 310-318
- https://doi.org/10.1109/83.661181
Abstract
We introduce a new geometrical framework based on which natural flows for image scale space and enhancement are presented. We consider intensity images as surfaces in the (x, I) space. The image is, thereby, a two-dimensional (2-D) surface in three-dimensional (3-D) space for gray-level images, and 2-D surfaces in five dimensions for color images. The new formulation unifies many classical schemes and algorithms via a simple scaling of the intensity contrast, and results in new and efficient schemes. Extensions to multidimensional signals become natural and lead to powerful denoising and scale space algorithms.Keywords
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