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Directional Image Analysis: Steerable Filters

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MICRO-512: Image processing II

Study of advanced image processing; mathematical imaging. Development of image-processing software and prototyping in Jupyter Notebooks; application to real-world examples in industrial vision and biomedical imaging. ...

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This lecture covers the central-slice theorem, Radon transform, Fourier transform, multinomial expansion, gradient and directional derivatives, structure tensor, and directional pattern matching. It explains the steerability of polynomials, properties of multidimensional polynomials, and the implementation of steerable filters for edge and ridge detection in image processing.

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Instructors (4)

Michael Stefan Daniel Liebling

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville

Michaël Unser

Daniel Sage

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