IMAGE ANALYSIS BASED ON EDGE DETECTION TECHNIQUES

IntroductionEdges are pixels where brightness changesabruptly and often used in image analysis for find-ing region boundaries.It locates sharp changes inthe intensity function.Edges detection is basic im-age features.They carry useful information aboutobject boundaries.Edges can be used for object i-dentification,image analysis and image filteringapplications as well.We shall consider as an edgethe border between two homogeneous image re-gions having different illumination.This definitionimp…

IMAGE ANALYSIS BASED ON EDGE DETECTION TECHNIQUES

A method that incorporates edge detection technique, Markov Random field (MRF), watershed segmentation and merging techniques was presented for performing image segmentation and edge detection tasks. It first applies edge detection technique to obtain a Difference In Strength (DIS) map. An initial segmented result is obtained based on K means clustering technique and the minimum distance. Then the region process is modeled by MRF to obtain an image that contains different intensity regions. The gradient values are calculated and then the watershed technique is used. DIS calculation is used for each pixel to define all the edges (weak or strong) in the image. The DIS map is obtained. This help as priority knowledge to know the possibility of the region segmentation by the next step (MRF), which gives an image that has all the edges and regions information. In MRF model, gray level l , at pixel location i , in an image X , depends on the gray levels of neighboring pixels. The segmentation results are improved by using watershed algorithm. After all pixels of the segmented regions are processed, a map of primitive region with edges is generated. The edge map is obtained using a merge process based on averaged intensity mean values. A common edge detectors that work on (MRF) segmented image are used and the results are compared. The segmentation and edge detection result is one closed boundary per actual region in the image.