The Scale-Space Primal Sketch: Construction and Experiments

Tony Lindeberg and Jan-Olof Eklundh

Image and Vision Computing, 10, 3--18, 1992.

Abstract

This article presents a multi-scale representation of grey-level shape, called the scale-space primal sketch, that makes explicit features in scale-space as well as the relations between features at different levels of scale. The representation gives a qualitative description of the image structure that allows for extraction of significant image structure --- stable scales and regions of interest --- in a solely bottom-up data-driven manner. Hence, it can be seen as preceding further processing, which can then be properly tuned. Experiments on real imagery demonstrate that the proposed theory gives perceptually intuitive results.

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