A Novel Edge Detection Approach Based on Soft Morphological Operations

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Edge detection and target segmentation is difficult due to noise existing in an image. A novel edge detection method is proposed based on soft morphological operations in this paper. Because soft morphological operations can remove noise while preserving image details, which can be used to construct morphological edge detection operators with high robustness and better edge effect. Experimental results show that, comparing with the existing edge detection operators, the novel edge detection method can get better edge effect while removing pseudo edges.

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