Blob Detection by Relaxation
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Ieee Transactions On Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
- Vol. PAMI-3 (1), 79-92
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.1981.4767053
Abstract
A blob is a compact region lighter (or darker) than its background surrounded by a smoothly curved edge. Blobs can be detected using cooperating relaxation processes to enhance their interior and edge probabilities. A discussion of the processes working independently and together is given. The use of a pyramidal relaxation structure, the use of the closedness of contours as an additional information source, and the extension of cooperating relaxation processes to a time sequence of images are also discussed.Keywords
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