The entropy of scale-space

Viewing images as distributions of light quanta enables an information theoretic study of image structures on different scales. This article combines Shannon’s entropy and Witkin and Koenderink’s Scale-Space to establish a precise connection between the Heat Equation and the Thermodynamic Entropy in Scale-Space. Experimentally the entropy function is used to study global textures.

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