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The Curve Filter Transform – A Robust Method for Curve Enhancement

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2010)

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In this paper we introduce the Curve Filter Transform, a powerful tool for enhancing curve-like structures in images. The method extends earlier works on orientation fields and the Orientation Field Transform. The result is a robust method that is less sensitive to noise and produce sharper images than the Orientation Field Transform. We describe the method and demonstrate its performance on several examples where we compare the result to the Canny edge detector and the Orientation Field Transform. The examples include a tomogram from a biological cell and we also demonstrate how the method can be used to enhance handwritten text.

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    Kristian Sandberg

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, 89557, Reno, NV, USA

    George Bebis

  2. Moffett Field, NASA Ames Research Center, 94035, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China

    Ronald Chung

  6. Dyna Vox Systems, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Riad Hammound

  7. King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Muhammad Hussain

  8. Hewlett Packard Labs, Paolo Alto, CA, USA

    Tan Kar-Han

  9. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Roger Crawfis

  10. Virtual Reality Lab, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Daniel Thalmann

  11. NASA Ames Research Center, Clifton Park, NY, USA

    David Kao

  12. Kitware, Clifton Park, NY, USA

    Lisa Avila

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Sandberg, K. (2010). The Curve Filter Transform – A Robust Method for Curve Enhancement. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6454. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17274-8_11

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