Boundary Characterization within the Wedge-Channel Representation

Ullrich Köthe

in: B. Jähne, R. Mester, E. Barth, H. Scharr (Eds.): Complex Motion, Proc. of 1st International Workshop on Complex Motion, Günzburg 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3417, pp. 42-53, Berlin: Springer, 2004. (note: this article is © Springer-Verlag)

Abstract

Junctions play an important role in motion analysis. Approaches based on the structure tensor have become the standard for junction detection. However, the structure tensor is not able to classify junctions into different types (L, T, Y, X etc.). We propose to solve this problem by the wedge channel representation. It is based on the same computational steps as used for the (anisotropic) structure tensor, but stores results into channel vectors rather than tensors. Due to one-sided channel smoothing, these channel vectors not only represent edge orientation (as existing channel approaches do) but edge direction. Thus junctions cannot only be detected, but also fully characterized.

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