By using the single VGA camera installed on mobile robot, a vision-based intelligent obstacle avoidance algorithm is developed in this paper. The image data are processed by edge detection method. By using the adaptive network based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS), the horizontal edge numbers (HEN) and vertical edge numbers (VEN) are feed into ANFIS to train the fuzzy rules such as to control th...

Digital image processing is widely used in many research oriented fields. Edge detection method is one of the important techniques in Image Segmentation, which is used to find out the objects in the input image in exact manner. An edge is the boundary between an object and background and it indicates the boundary between overlapping objects. One of the most commonly used operation analysis is e...

Edge detection and edge enhancement techniques play an essential role in interpreting potential field data. This paper describes the application of various edge detection techniques to gravity data in order to delineate the edges of subsurface structures. The edge detection methods comprise analytic signal, total horizontal derivative (THDR), theta angle, tilt angle, hyperbolic of tilt angle (H...

The Fuzzy logic concept is implemented in several image processing operations such as edge detection, segmentation, object recognition, etc. In this paper, a novel Image encryption algorithm based on multiple fuzzy graph (FG) mapping technique is proposed. The Fuzzy graphs are obtained from a matrix of size n and then they are used to encrypt an image. Here fuzzy graphs with triangular and sigm...

Image feature detection and matching is a fundamental task in image processing and machine vision. In this paper we present novel methods for feature detection and matching. We have used edge points and their accumulated curvature information for feature detection. The detected features are then matched using a new method called “fuzzy-edge based feature matching”. To increase the speed of matc...

Soft Computing is a multifaceted technique comprising of Fuzzy Logic, Neural Network, Genetic algorithms and other Evolutionary computation. These techniques have found wide variety of applications in the field of image processing. One of the most important applications of image segmentation is edge detection. Edge refers to the boundary between two consistent regions. Edge detection is the pro...

Face and hand tracking are important areas of research, related to adaptive human-computer interfaces, and affective computing. In this article we have introduced two new methods for boundary detection of the human face in video sequences: (1) edge density thresholding, and (2) fuzzy edge density. We have analyzed these algorithms based on two main factors: convergence speed and stability again...

First-order linear filters constitute the algorithms most widely applied to edge detection in digital images. Nevertheless they don’t allow good results to be obtained from images where the contrast varies a lot, due to non-uniform lighting, as it happens during acquisition of most part of natural images. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of a fuzzy inference system in edge detection. ...