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International Journal of Scientific Research Engineering & Technology (IJSRET), ISSN 2278 – 0882 Volume 5, Issue 4, April 2016

DYNAMIC RESOLUTION OF IMAGE EDGE DETECTION TECHNIQUE AMONG SOBEL, LOG, AND CANNY ALGORITHMS Lekhasri Bhargav, Anu R, Disha Nagaraj & Lavanya H U Students, Department of Computer Science, K.S.Institute of Technology Bengaluru

Piyush Kumar Pareek Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, K.S.Institute of Technology Bengaluru

Abstract Edge detection is a type of image segmentation techniques which determines the presence of an edge or line in an image and outlines them in an appropriate way. The main purpose of edge detection is to simplify the image data in order to minimize the amount of data to be processed. Generally, an edge is defined as the boundary pixels that connect two separate regions with changing image amplitude attributes such as different constant luminance and tristimulus values in an image. In this paper, we present methods for edge segmentation of images; we will be using three techniques for this category; Sobel operator technique, Canny technique, and LoG technique, and they are compared with one another so as to choose the best technique. To compare these techniques, we make use of PSNR parameter. Whichever technique (algorithm) has the least PSNR value for a particular input image, that technique is chosen to derive the output. i.e, In this project an attempt is made to study the performance of these edge detection techniques for image segmentation and we dynamically select the best among them so that the user of the product always experience the best result.

1. INTRODUCTION Edge detection is a fundamental tool used in most image processing applications to obtain information from the frames as a precursor step to feature extraction and object segmentation. This process detects outlines of an object and boundaries between objects and the background in the image. An edge-detection filter can also be used to improve the appearance of blurred image; to this cause more studies take this subject can be give some of these studies briefly: Softcomputing techniques have found wide applications. One of the most important applications is edge detection for image segmentation. The process of partitioning a digital image into multiple regions or sets of pixels is called image segmentation.Edge isa boundary between two homogeneous regions.

Edgedetection refers to the process of identifying and locating sharp discontinuities in an image. There are four ways changes in intensity willoccur and based on that we can conclude which type of edge ispresent. These are Step edge: In step edge the image intensity changes swiftlyfrom one value to another.Meaning theintensity changes like inthe digital 0 or 1(high or low). Roof edge: A Roof edge where the intensity change is notinstantaneous but occurs over a finite distance (i.e., usuallygenerated by the intersection of two surfaces). Ridge edge: In ridge edge the image intensity abruptly changesvalue but then returns to the starting value within some shortdistance (i.e., usually generated by lines). Now it is also possible that a certain pixel can satisfy anyVariation and we can mistook it for an edge. Various situationscan lead to that for instance in poor lighting conditions or anoise can occur which can show all the characteristics of anEdge. So we have to be more cautious about variations showing points (pixels) are edges. Main steps in Edge Detection: (1)Smoothing: It suppresses noise, without destroying true edges. (2) Enhancement: apply differentiation to enhance the quality of edges (i.e., sharpening). (3) Thresholding: determine which edge pixels should be Discarded as noise and which should be retained (i.e., threshold edge magnitude). (4) Localization: Its objectiveis to find from all the candidate’s edge points the true member of edge.Edge detection can be broadly divided into two categories which comprises all the techniques: 1. Gradient based operators 2. Laplacian operator This figure will explain all the techniques which come under these categories-

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among them as per their requirement. Thus, we provide a robust solution that is adaptable to the varying noise levels.

1. Gradient based operators- Theseare also called the firstorder operators because by looking the local maxima and minima edges are detected. 2. Laplacian Based Operators-These operators use thesecond order partial differential for edge detection. That’s whyit is also called the second order operators. This approach is basically defines a discrete formulation of the second orderderivative and the filter is constructed on the basis of thatformulation. In Laplacian operator we are basically interestedin the construction of an isotropic filters.An isotropic filter is that filter which is rotation invariantmeaning that applying the filter as it is then again applying thefilter with 90° gives the same result.

2. EXISTING SYSTEM Edge detection is a fundamental tool used in most image processing applications to obtain information from the frames as a precursor step to feature extraction and object segmentation. This process detects outlines of an object and boundaries between objects and the background in the image. An edge-detection filter can also be used to improve the appearance of blurred image; to this cause more studies take this subject can be give some of these studies briefly: Soft computing techniques have found wide applications. One of the most important applications is edge detection for image segmentation. The process of partitioning a digital image into multiple regions or sets of pixels is called image segmentation. Edge is a boundary between two homogeneous regions. Edge detection refers to the process of identifying and locating sharp discontinuities in an image

Canny Edge Detector The sobel operator had one demerit of noise. When the noise occur sobel operator tends to assume it as a part of the edge and also sometimes it misses the true edges due to corruption of noise. All gradient based techniques are very sensitive to noise. But canny overcomes this demerit by using the Gaussian filter before applying the mask. Gaussian filter reduces the noise as much as possible. Canny approach is based on three objectives: 1. Low error rate-All edges should be found in an image none should be left behind. No spurious responses should be there. The edges detected should be as close as to the true edges. 2. Edge points should be well localized-means the distance between the edge which is marked by thedetector should be as near to the Centre of the true edge. 3. Single point response-Only one point should be return by the detector for each true edge meaning the number of local maxima around the edge should be minimum. The Process of Canny edge detection algorithm can be broken down to 5 different steps: 1. Apply Gaussian filter to smooth the image in order to remove the noise 2. Find the intensity gradients of the image 3. Apply non-maximum suppression to get rid of spurious response to edge detection 4. Apply double threshold to determine potential edges 5.Track edge by hysteresis: Finalize the detection of edges by suppressing all the other edges that are weak and not connected to strong edges. A. The Results of Canny Operator

Problem statement An adaptive edge-detection algorithm is necessary to provide a robust solution that is adaptable to the varying noise levels

3. PROPOSED SYSTEM In this project, we propose an adaptive edgedetection algorithm at dynamic time choosing among the canny algorithm, sobel algorithm, and the log algorithm. We also implement these three algorithms and make them available for the end users to choose www.ijsret.org

Fig. 1. (a) Original image (b) threshold = 0.00(c) threshold = 0.01 (d) threshold = 0. 30.

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Sobel Operator The Sobel operator, sometimes called the SobelFeldman operator or Sobel filter, is used in image processing and computer vision, particularly within edge detection algorithms where it creates an image emphasising edges. It is named after Irwin Sobel and Gary Feldman, colleagues at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL). It was co-developed with Gary Feldman at SAIL. Sobel and Feldman presented the idea of an "Isotropic 3x3 Image Gradient Operator" at a talk at SAIL in 1968. Technically, it is a discrete differentiation operator, computing an approximation of the gradient of the image intensity function. At each point in the image, the result of the Sobel-Feldman operator is either the corresponding gradient vector or the norm of this vector. The SobelFeldman operator is based on convolving the image with a small, separable, and integer valued filter in the horizontal and vertical directions and is therefore relatively inexpensive in terms of computations. On the other hand, the gradient approximation that it produces is relatively crude, in particular for high frequency variations in the image

Typically, an approximate magnitude is computed using: which is much faster to compute. The angle of orientationof the edge (relative to the pixel grid) giving rise to the spatialgradient is given by: q = arctan(Gy /Gx) B. The Results of Sobel Operator

Sobel filter is a simple approximation to the concept of gradient with smoothing. The 3x3 convolution mask is usually used to detect gradients in X and Y directions. The operator consists of a pair of 3×3 convolution kernels as shown in Fig. One kernel is simply the other rotated by 90.

These kernels are designed to respond maximally to edges running vertically and horizontally relative to the pixel grid,one kernel for each of the two perpendicular orientations. The kernels can be applied separately to the input image, to produce separate measurements of the gradient component in each orientation (call these Gx and Gy). These can then be combined together to find the absolute magnitude of the gradient at each point and the orientation of that gradient. The gradient magnitude is given by: The log transformations can be defined by this formula, s = c log(r + 1). Where s and r are the pixel values of the output and the input image and c is a constant. The value 1 is added to each of the pixel value of the input image because if there is a pixel intensity of 0 in the image, then log (0) is equal to infinity. So 1 is added , to make the minimum value at least 1. During log transformation , the dark pixels in an image are expanded as compare to the higher pixel values. The higher pixel values are kind of compressed in log transformation. This result in following image enhancement.The value of c in the log transform adjust the kind of enhancement you are looking for. C. The Results of Laplacian of Gaussian Operator

Fig. 2. (a) Original image (b) threshold = 0.00 (c) threshold = 0.05 (d) threshold = 0.30. Log Transformation Laplacian of Gaussian (LOG) operator finds the optimal filter of edge detection by ratio of the signal to noise of image. www.ijsret.org

Fig. 3. (a) Original image (b) threshold = 0.00 (c) threshold = 0.01 (d) threshold = 0.30.

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4. MAJOR ADVANTAGES OF THE PROPOSED SYSTEM Adaptable Dynamically the system will resolve the algorithm decision based on noise levels Sobel is less sensitive to isolated high intensity point variations since the local averaging over sets of three pixels tends to reduce this.

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5. TECHNOLOGIES USED Front end: Windows Builder and Java AWT APIs Back end: Java, Advanced Java Database: Oracle/ MySQL

6. COMPARISON BETWEEN ALL OPERATORS AND CONCLUSION As shown in the images below all the operators are applied on the original image where A is the original image with resolution of 512 × 512. There are different parameters which can be used to show the differences and similarity between these all different edge detection operators. One of the parameters used is discussed below: 1. Peek signal to noise ratio (PSNR)-It is ratio between maximum power of the signal and the power of corrupting noise. The more the value of PSNR the better is image reconstruction ability.

G Fig 4-Comparsion of all different edge detection operators (A) Original (B) Sobel (C) Canny (D) Prewitt (E) Log (Laplacian of Gaussian) (F) Roberts (G) zero cross PSNR-Peek signal to noise ratio values are shown below: TABLE I. PSNR COMPARISON VALUES

Now comparison between all the techniques is undertaken. Bitmap image of Lena of resolution 512*512 is used in the Matlab software.

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Fig 4. Comparison of all operators on the basis PSNR C

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8. CONCLUSION Edge detection is the important step in object extraction.Therefore it becomes important to know about various edge detection techniques. This paper discusses about 3 important edge detection algorithms www.ijsret.org

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and compares them dynamically with the help of the PSNR parameter for measurement. As a result of this the best algorithm is selected for the given input image. The other advantage of this paper is that, previously, the edge detection algorithms were implemented in MATLAB, whereas this paper implements them in JAVA which overcomes many drawbacks of MATLAB.

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