International Journal of Image, Graphics and Signal Processing (IJIGSP)
IJIGSP Vol. 5, No. 9, 8 Jul. 2013
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A Hybrid Method for Detection of Edges in Grayscale Images
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Author(s)
Jesal Vasavada
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Shamik Tiwari
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Index Terms
Edge Detection, Neural Networks, Fuzzy logic, Backpropagation, hybrid system
Abstract
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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Jesal Vasavada,Shamik Tiwari,"A Hybrid Method for Detection of Edges in Grayscale Images", IJIGSP, vol.5, no.9, pp.21-28, 2013. DOI: 10.5815/ijigsp.2013.09.04
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