Edge detection
Things to take away from this lecture
What is an edge and where does it come from
Edge detection by differentiation
Image gradients
continuous and discrete
filters (e.g., Sobel operator)
Effects of noise on gradients
Derivative theorem of convolution
Derivative of Gaussian (DoG) operator
Laplacian operator
Laplacian of Gaussian (LoG)
Canny edge detector (basic idea)
Effects of varying sigma parameter
Approximating an LoG by subtraction