[SciPy-User] Edge Detection

[Chris Colbert]

Dan,

You may also want to look into HOG features as well (Histogram of
oriented gradients). They are used quite often for shape
characterization, and with proper normalization, can become scale and
rotation invariant.

Glad to see you got something working!

Cheers,

Chris

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Dan Yamins <dyamins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Chris Colbert <sccolbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> All of the OpenCV edge detection routines are also available in
>> scikits.image if you have opencv  (>= 2.0) installed.
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Zachary Pincus <zachary.pincus at yale.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Code: Look at what's available in scipy.ndimage. There are functions for
>> > getting gradient magnitudes, as well as standard filters like Sobel etc.
>> > (which you'll learn about from the above), plus morphological operators
>> > for
>> > modifying binarized image regions (e.g. like erosion etc.; useful for
>> > getting rid of stray noise-induced edges), plus some basic functions for
>> > image smoothing like median filters, etc.
>> >
>> > For exploratory analysis, you might want some ability to interactively
>> > visualize images; you could use matplotlib or the imaging scikit, which
>> > is
>> > still pre-release but making fast progress:
>> > http://github.com/stefanv/scikits.image
>> >
>> > I've attached basic code for Canny edge detection, which should
>> > demonstrate
>> > a bit about how ndimage works, plus it's useful in its own right. There
>> > is
>> > also some code floating around for anisotropic diffusion and bilateral
>> > filtering, which are two noise-reduction methods that can be better than
>> > simple median filtering.
>> >
>
> Hi Chris and Zachary, thanks very much for your help.  I really appreciate
> it.
>
> My goal was to recognize linear (and circular) strokes in images of text.
> After I wrote my question and did some further research, I realized that I
> was so ignorant that I didn't know enough to properly ask for what I
> wanted.  Finding strokes in letters is actually more like "line detection"
> (as in "detecting lines as geometric features") than it is like edge
> detection (e.g. something that the sobel operator does well).  I needed to
> localize the lines and describe them in some geometric way, not so much
> determine where their boundaries were.
>
> What I ended up doing is using the Radon transform (scipy.misc.radon),
> together with the hcluster package.  The basic idea is that applying Radon
> transform to the image of a letter transforms the strokes into confined
> blobs whose position and extent in the resulting point/angle space describes
> the location, width, and angle of the original stroke.   Then, I make a
> binary version of the transformed image by applying an indicated threshold
> on intensity -- e.g. a 1 at all points in the transformed image whose
> intensity are above the threshold, and 0 elsewhere.   Then, I cluster this
> binary image, which ends up identifying clusters whose centroid and diameter
> correspond to features of idealized strokes.      This algorithm seems to
> work pretty well.
>
> Thanks alot again for your help, the scipy.ndimage package really seems
> great.  I read somewhere that the edge-detection routines will actually
> become part of the next version of the package.  Is that still true?
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
>
>
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