Acta mathematica scientia,Series B ›› 2022, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (3): 1238-1260.doi: 10.1007/s10473-022-0325-3

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A ROBUST COLOR EDGE DETECTION ALGORITHM BASED ON THE QUATERNION HARDY FILTER

Wenshan BI1, Dong CHENG2, Wankai LIU3, Kit Ian KOU1   

  1. 1. Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macau, China;
    2. Research Center for Mathematics and Mathematics Education, Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, Zhuhai, 519087, China;
    3. School of Mathematics and Quantitative Economics, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, Jinan, 250014, China
  • Received:2021-01-29 Revised:2021-07-04 Published:2022-06-24
  • Contact: Kit Ian KOU,E-mail:kikou@um.edu.mo E-mail:kikou@um.edu.mo
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported in part by the Science and Technology Development Fund, Macau SAR FDCT/085/2018/A2 and the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (2019A1515111185).

Abstract: This paper presents a robust filter called the quaternion Hardy filter (QHF) for color image edge detection. The QHF can be capable of color edge feature enhancement and noise resistance. QHF can be used flexibly by selecting suitable parameters to handle different levels of noise. In particular, the quaternion analytic signal, which is an effective tool in color image processing, can also be produced by quaternion Hardy filtering with specific parameters. Based on the QHF and the improved Di Zenzo gradient operator, a novel color edge detection algorithm is proposed; importantly, it can be efficiently implemented by using the fast discrete quaternion Fourier transform technique. From the experimental results, we conclude that the minimum PSNR improvement rate is 2.3% and the minimum SSIM improvement rate is 30.2% on the CSEE database. The experiments demonstrate that the proposed algorithm outperforms several widely used algorithms.

Key words: Boundary values, color image edge detection, quaternion analytic signal, discrete quaternion Fourier transform

CLC Number: 

  • 11R52
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