On the use of quasi-arithmetic means for the generation of edge detection blending functions

The edge detection process can be broken down into four basic transformations, modifying the image from the original presentation to the final edges one. The adoption of this framework makes the process far more understandable, and offers an starting point for the combination and comparison of different edge detection methods. In this work we analyze the role of the third of the transformations, the blending, where the edge features are combined to obtain the edginess values. This work studies the use of quasi-aritmethic means for the combination of the edge features. Moreover, we show results obtained with different operators on real images, in order to illustrate the importance of the blending phase in the edge detection process. Results will show the impact of the function selection in the final results.

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