We propose a robust edge detection method based on ICA-domain shrinkage (in- dependent component analysis). It is known that most basis functions extracted from natural images by ICA are sparse and similar to locali...We propose a robust edge detection method based on ICA-domain shrinkage (in- dependent component analysis). It is known that most basis functions extracted from natural images by ICA are sparse and similar to localized and oriented receptive fields, and in the proposed edge detection method, a target image is first transformed by ICA basis functions and then the edges are detected or recon- structed with sparse components. Furthermore, by applying a shrinkage algorithm to filter out the components of noise in ICA-domain, we can readily obtain the sparse components of the original image, resulting in a kind of robust edge detec- tion even for a noisy image with a very low SN ratio. The efficiency of the proposed method is demonstrated by experiments with some natural images.展开更多
基金Supported by the Research Foundation of Education Bureau of Hunan Province, China (Grant No. 07B084)Scientific Research Fund of Central South University of Forestry & Technology (Grant No. 06y005)
文摘We propose a robust edge detection method based on ICA-domain shrinkage (in- dependent component analysis). It is known that most basis functions extracted from natural images by ICA are sparse and similar to localized and oriented receptive fields, and in the proposed edge detection method, a target image is first transformed by ICA basis functions and then the edges are detected or recon- structed with sparse components. Furthermore, by applying a shrinkage algorithm to filter out the components of noise in ICA-domain, we can readily obtain the sparse components of the original image, resulting in a kind of robust edge detec- tion even for a noisy image with a very low SN ratio. The efficiency of the proposed method is demonstrated by experiments with some natural images.