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The problem of symbolic representation of intensity variations in gray-value pictures of real scenes is studied. The goal is to relate the responses of a filter bank of different gradient filters to the structure of the picture which is determined by the physics of the image generation process. A simple criterion is proposed for the selection of a suitable center frequency of the involved band-pass filters. The gradient vectors of the image function give the direction of maximal intensity changes with high resolution (8 bit) which can be used for an invariant shape description by corner points of a contour. The picture is segmented by closed contour lines into regions which form a topographic representation in the picture domain.
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Korn, A.F. (1989). Towards a Primal Sketch of Real World Scenes in Early Vision. In: Eckmiller, R., v.d. Malsburg, C. (eds) Neural Computers. Springer Study Edition, vol 41. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83740-1_14
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