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Edge detection is a very essential part of image processing, as quality and accuracy of detection determines the success of further processing. We have developed a new self learning technique for edge detection using dictionary comprised of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-03 Nitish Chandra , Kedar Khare

Edge detection is a fundamental technique in various computer vision tasks. Edges are indeed effectively delineated by pixel discontinuity and can offer reliable structural information even in textureless areas. State-of-the-art heavily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Leng Kai , Zhang Zhijie , Liu Jie , Zed Boukhers , Sui Wei , Cong Yang , Li Zhijun

Machine learning at the edge offers great benefits such as increased privacy and security, low latency, and more autonomy. However, a major challenge is that many devices, in particular edge devices, have very limited memory, weak…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Yang Li , Thomas Strohmer

In this work, we propose a novel quantum algorithm for edge detection in digital grayscale images, based on the sequency-ordered Walsh-Hadamard transform. The proposed method significantly improves upon existing quantum techniques for edge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Mohit Rohida , Alok Shukla , Prakash Vedula

Edge detection and image filters are commonly used in computer vision. However, they have never been applied to the data analysis of angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) data before in a systematic fashion. In this paper we…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-15 Christopher Sims

We propose EasyControlEdge, adapting an image-generation foundation model to edge detection. In real-world edge detection (e.g., floor-plan walls, satellite roads/buildings, and medical organ boundaries), crispness and data efficiency are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Hiroki Nakamura , Hiroto Iino , Masashi Okada , Tadahiro Taniguchi

Edge detection is crucial in medical image processing, enabling precise extraction of structural information to support lesion identification and image analysis. Traditional edge detection models typically rely on complex Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Fuzhang Li , Chuan Lin

Edge detection is a fundamental problem in different computer vision tasks. Recently, edge detection algorithms achieve satisfying improvement built upon deep learning. Although most of them report favorable evaluation scores, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Luyan Liu , Kai Ma , Yefeng Zheng

To address the challenge of segmenting noisy images with blurred or fragmented boundaries, this paper presents a robust version of Variational Model Based Tailored UNet (VM_TUNet), a hybrid framework that integrates variational methods with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Kaili Qi , Zhongyi Huang , Wenli Yang

This work introduces a novel quantum algorithm for gradient-based edge detection that operates entirely within the quantum circuit model. Grayscale images are encoded using the Novel Enhanced Quantum Representation (NEQR), allowing exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Fred Sun

Edge detection is widely and fundamental feature used in various algorithms in computer vision to determine the edges in an image. The edge detection algorithm is used to determine the edges in an image which are further used by various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Victor Bogdan , Cosmin Bonchiş , Ciprian Orhei

A fundamental question for edge detection in noisy images is how faint can an edge be and still be detected. In this paper we offer a formalism to study this question and subsequently introduce computationally efficient multiscale edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Nati Ofir , Meirav Galun , Sharon Alpert , Achi Brandt , Boaz Nadler , Ronen Basri

A novel energy-efficient edge computing paradigm is proposed for real-time deep learning-based image upsampling applications. State-of-the-art deep learning solutions for image upsampling are currently trained using either resize or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Ian Colbert , Ken Kreutz-Delgado , Srinjoy Das

Anomaly detection is widely used in a broad range of domains from cybersecurity to manufacturing, finance, and so on. Deep learning based anomaly detection has recently drawn much attention because of its superior capability of recognizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Ronit Das , Tie Luo

In this paper, a color edge detection method is proposed where the multi-scale Gabor filter are used to obtain edges from input color images. The main advantage of the proposed method is that high edge detection accuracy is attained while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Yunhong Li , Yuandong Bi , Weichuan Zhang , Jie Ren , Jinni Chen

As the availability of imagery data continues to swell, so do the demands on transmission, storage and processing power. Processing requirements to handle this plethora of data is quickly outpacing the utility of conventional processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Artyom M. Grigoryan , Sos S. Agaian , Karen Panetta

Data-driven approaches for edge detection have proven effective and achieve top results on modern benchmarks. However, all current data-driven edge detectors require manual supervision for training in the form of hand-labeled region…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Yin Li , Manohar Paluri , James M. Rehg , Piotr Dollár

Edge detection is a fundamental image analysis task that underpins numerous high-level vision applications. Recent advances in Transformer architectures have significantly improved edge quality by capturing long-range dependencies, but this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yuhan Gao , Xinqing Li , Xin He , Bing Li , Xinzhong Zhu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Yun Liu

Semantic edge detection has recently gained a lot of attention as an image processing task, mainly due to its wide range of real-world applications. This is based on the fact that edges in images contain most of the semantic information.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-28 Héctor Andrade-Loarca , Gitta Kutyniok , Ozan Öktem

Most high-level computer vision tasks rely on low-level image operations as their initial processes. Operations such as edge detection, image enhancement, and super-resolution, provide the foundations for higher level image analysis. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Xavier Soria , Yachuan Li , Mohammad Rouhani , Angel D. Sappa