COHERENCE ENHANCEMENT DIFFUSION USING ROBUST ORIENTATION ESTIMATION

In this paper, a new robust orientation estimation for Coherence Enhancement Diffusion (CED) is proposed. In CED, proper scale selection is very important as the gradient vector at that scale reflects the orientation of local ridge. For this purpose, a new scheme is proposed in which pre calculated orientation, by using orientation diffusion, is used to find the correct true local scale. From the experiments it is found that the proposed scheme is working much better in noisy environment as compared to the traditional Coherence Enhancement Diffusion.

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