Extraction of diffuse edges by edge focusing

Abstract The edge focusing method produces a series of edge images ranging from coarser to finer scale resolution. The displacements of these extracted edges in this series are discussed. A three-step method of labelling the extracted edges as coming from objects or as coming from shadows and other illumination phenomena using this series is tried. More precisely, we show that it seems possible to label edges into the categories ‘diffuse’ and ‘non-diffuse’ from a binary multi-scale representation, i.e. without using the image intensities directly.