# FYI: refs on machine vision

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[From: Bruce Nevin (Wed 920819 08:12:45)]

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> To: machine-learning@BBN.COM, neural-people@BBN.COM  
> Subject: Some interesting vision references ("Why Progress in Machine Vision Is  
> So Slow)  
> From: aboulang@BBN.COM  
> Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 11:38:01 EDT
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> From: defee@tukkasotka.tut.fi (Irek Defee)  
> Newsgroups: sci.image.processing  
> Subject: Re: Canny Edge Detector  
> Date: 8 Aug 92 06:54:58 GMT
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> In article \<1992Aug7.132410.29816@bert.eecs.uic.edu\> eddins@bert.eecs.uic.edu  
> (Dr. Steven L. Eddins) writes:
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> > > The interested hobbyists experimenting with the CAnny edge detector  
> > > should take a look at the recent papers by Margaret Fleck BEFORE  
> > > starting to experiment. Just scan IEEE PAMI, I don't have a copy here.  
> > > Hans
> > 
> > The references are:  
> > M. M. Fleck, "Some Defects in Finite-Difference Edge Finders," IEEE  
> > Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 14, n.  
> > 3, March 1992, pp. 337-345.  
> > M. M. Fleck, "Multiple Widths Yield Reliable Finite Differences," IEEE  
> > Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 14, n.  
> > 4, April 1992, pp. 412-429.
> 
> Very good reading, indeed. Then, add to the Marr-Hildreth and Canny optimal  
> edge detectors;
> 
> J. Shen, S. Castan, "An Optimal Linear Operator for Step Edge Detection,"  
> CVGIP: Graphics Models and Image Processing, vol. 54, No. 2, March  
> 1992, pp. 112-133.
> 
> But, for God's sake, before developing any new (optimal or not) edge  
> detectors, read please:
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> R. C. Jain, T. O. Binford, "Ignorance, Myopia and Naivete in Computer  
> Vision Systems," CVGIP: Image Understanding, vol. 53, No. 1, Jan.  
> 1991, pp. 112-117, 1991.
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> T. Pavlidis, "Why Progress in Machine Vision Is So Slow," Pattern  
> Recognition Letters vol. 13, April 1992, pp. 221-225.
> 
> Irek Defee  
> Signal Processing Laboratory,  
> Tampere University of Technology,  
> Tampere, Finland, Europe.
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