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The Topographic Primal Sketch
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A complete mathematical treatment is given for describing the topographic primal sketch of the underlying gray tone intensity surface of a digital image. Each picture element is independently classified and assigned a unique descriptive label, invariant under monotonically increasing gray tone transformations from the set ( peak, pit, ridge, ravine, saddle, flat, and hillside), with hillside having subcategories ( inflection point, slope, convex hill, concave hill, and saddle hill). The topographic classification is based on the first and second directional derivatives of the estimated image- intensity surface. A local, facet model, two-dimensional, cubic polynomial fit is done to estimate the image-intensity surface. Zero-crossings of the first directional derivative are identified as locations of interest in the image.
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- Authors
- Haralick, R. M., Watson, L. T., & Laffey, T. J.
- Venue
- The International Journal of Robotics Research
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1983-03
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 50-72
- ISSN
- 0278-3649 (ISSN-L)
- 1741-3176
- OpenAlex
- W2000367729
- Cited by
- 280
- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 12.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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