¹School of Information Science and Engineering, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China
²ZTEsoft Technology Co.,LTD. Urumqi 830000, Xinjiang, China

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Abstract—In order to obtain more complete and continuous edge information of the image, the image enhancement methods and Hessian matrix are used in the process of edge detection. Based on the gradient information of color images, the pseudo-color edges can be got by using the multichannel edge detection. Then, enhance the edge information and remove the correlation to obtain complete edge information. The Hessian matrix is used in the last place to remove edges with redundant background texture and coarse edges so that the edge information will be more continuous and smooth. Two experiments are conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. The software is developed by using MATLAB. Experiments have confirmed that the result of proposed detection is more continuous and clearer and more details are contained. Furthermore, a good balance between the integrity and accuracy of edge detection is achieved as well.

Index Terms—color edge detection; centerline extraction; hessian matrix

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Cite: Li Zhang, Liejun Wang, Senhai Zhong and Gang Zhao, "Color Edge Detection by Using the Centerline Extraction Method," Journal of Computers vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 922-929, 2014.