Edge Detection Project Uploaded

Another project that I did last semester was an investigation of six different edge detectors to determine which ones performed better on different images and if there was any way to come up with a generalized scheme of determining which edge detector to apply to a given image depending on certain traits of the image (such as brightness, intensity contrast, color contrast, etc.). This project was done with a partner, Mr. Dave Stears.

The edge detectors considered were:

• The Classical Canny Edge Detector
• A Canny Edge Detector applied to the three color channels rather than simply the intensity.
• The Marr-Hildreth Edge Detector (I lost the code for this one, but you should be able to re-implement it very easily from the description)
• A edge detection routine based on boolean images and boolean functions
• A Distance and Vector Angle Edge Detector designed specifically for color channel processing
• An edge detector based on determining depth discontinuities from multiple images taken with different flashes.

All code is in MATLAB. Included in zip file is a document with our final results, a document with our final discussion, and a short Powerpoint presentation describing our work. Test images are also provided.