A fuzzy-like approach for smoothing and edge detection in color images

摘要

Edge detection is one of the most important image processing steps towards image understanding. It is desired that edges be continuous and that the resultant regions or segments be completely isolated from their neighbors. Initially, images must first be smoothed to remove noise. In this paper, a novel fuzzy-like smoother algorithm is presented which removes camera noise and enhances edge contrast. The edge detection algorithm, which is applied on the smoothed image, is then presented.