Jesal Vasavada

Work place: Deptt. Of Computer Sc. & Engineering Faculty of Engineering & Tech., MITS Laxmangarh, (India)

E-mail: jesal.vasavada@gmail.com

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Research Interests: Image Processing, Image Manipulation, Image Compression

Biography

Jesal Vasavada was born in India, in 1989. She has completed her B.Tech. (Computer Sc. & Engineering) in 2011 and M.Tech. (Computer Sc. & Engg.) in 2013 from Rajasthan Technical University and Mody Institute of Technology & Science, Deemed University, Laxmangarh respectively. Her research interest lies in Digital Image Processing.

Author Articles
A Hybrid Method for Detection of Edges in Grayscale Images

By Jesal Vasavada Shamik Tiwari

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2013.09.04, Pub. Date: 8 Jul. 2013

Edge detection is the most fundamental but at the same time most important task in image processing and analysis. In the paper a hybrid approach combining Neural Network and Fuzzy logic based edge detection algorithm is proposed to detect edges in grayscale images. To improve the generalization ability, the neural network is trained on fuzzy inputs rather than crisp inputs. The network consists of three layers, one input layer, one hidden layer and one output layer. Fuzzy membership functions are used to convert neurons of input and hidden layer into fuzzy neurons. So the output of first and second layer is the membership value of the corresponding input in the fuzzy set. The proposed technique provides advantage of both neural networks and fuzzy logic and gives satisfactory results for both noisy and noise free images. The method is compared with Roberts, Prewitt, Sobel and Laplacian of Gaussian and other neural network and fuzzy logic based methods and the experimental results reveal that proposed method gives better edge map considering the problem of false edge detection.

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