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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences ((LNCIS,volume 219))

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This paper describes the contributions to scale-space research by Utrecht University over the period 1989–1995. Starting with work on the fundamental basis of scale-space from causality and first principles, the relation between scale and differentiation of numerical data is found to be crucial. The main lines of research are discussed: (high order) differential and algebraic invariant image structure, relations between order, scale, noise and accuracy of Gaussian derivatives, deep structure of scale-space and the ‘hyperstack’, multiscale optic flow and nonlinear diffusion. Most applications are in medical imaging. An overview of current activities and bibliography concludes the paper.

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ter Haar Romeny, B.M. (1996). Scale-space research at Utrecht University. In: Berger, MO., Deriche, R., Herlin, I., Jaffré, J., Morel, JM. (eds) ICAOS '96. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 219. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-76076-8_113

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