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Pruning orange trees what is meant by cutting out the collar of the branch
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You actually want to avoid this. The collar is a lump that surrounds the base of the branch. This is here to protect the cut branch from infection.
This article will help: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/oranges/pruning-orange-trees.htm
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He likes to hide his camera in the smoke-alarm over his bed, videoing kinky sex with his boyfriends. He is one of the biggest porn kings in American history, making a fortune off of "barebacking" videos—the kind of unprotected sex that led directly to AIDS. And when he is not bundling hundreds of thousands of dollars for President Obama, he is riding with him on Air Force One. He was arrested last week in his Portland, Oregon home for rape. Charged with a felony, he is accused of sodomizing a teenage boy in 2013. Meet Terrence Patrick Bean.
Bean is not just another rapist—he is a co-founder of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's most powerful homosexual organization, and the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund. And how have the media dealt with this story? With a yawn: AP ran one story totaling 133 words, CNN ran a couple of clips, and Fox News gave it a brief mention (some of the stories failed to mention Bean's HRC role).
Last year, when Obama appointed Howard Gutman as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, the media also reacted with a stunning lack of curiosity: he was accused of soliciting sex from children. But HRC was not lazy—it vigorously defended its gay hero.
HRC does not simply promote the radical gay agenda, it engages in smear campaigns against the Catholic Church. It continually brands as "anti-gay" every pro-marriage effort by the bishops. It also lectures the Vatican on internal matters: it offers instruction on the proper formation for men in the seminaries. Not surprisingly, it applied to march in New York City's 2015 St. Patrick's Day Parade.
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Paper #1638
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- The effects of conventional and unconventional monetary policy: A new approach
- Autors:
- Atsushi Inoue i Barbara Rossi
- Data:
- Octubre 2018
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- We propose a new approach to analuze economic shocks. Our new procedure identifies economic shocks as exogenous shifts in a function; hence, we call the "functional shocks". We show how to identify such shocks and how to trace their effects in the economy via VARs using a procedure that we call "VARs with finctional shocks". Using our new procedire, we address the crucial question of studying the effects or monetary policy by identifying monetary policy shocks as shifts in the shole term structure of government bond yields in a narrow window of time around monetary policy announcements. Our identification sheds new light on the effects of monetary policy shocks, both in conventional and unconventional periods, and shows that traditional identification procedires may miss important effects. We find that, overall, unconventional monetary policy has similar effects to conventional expansionary monetary policy, leading to an increase in both output growth and inflation; the response is hump-shaped; peaking around oneyear to one year and a half after the shock. The new procedire has the advantage of identifying monetary policy shocks during both conventional and unconventional monetary policy periods in a unified manner and can be applied more generally to other economic shocks.
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- Shock identification, VARs, zero-lower bound, unconventional monetary policy, forward guidance.
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- Macroeconomia i Economia Internacional / Estadística, Econometria i Mètodes Quantitatius
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Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of the many period notables.
George Thomas John Nugent 1st Marquess of Westmeath
17 July 1785 – 5 May 1871
George Nugent 1st Marquess of Westmeath was born in Clonyn, County Westmeath, the son of George Frederick Nugent, 7th Earl of Westmeath, and Marianne, daughter of Major James St. John Jefferyes. His parents divorced in 1796 after his father's discovery of his mother's affair with Augustus Bradshaw, which also resulted in a celebrated action for criminal conversation.
Lord Westmeath succeeded his father in the earldom in 1821. The following year he was created Marquess of Westmeath in the Peerage of Ireland. As these were Irish peerages they did not entitle him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords. However, in 1831 he was elected an Irish Representative Peer. The same year he was also appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Westmeath, a post he held until his death.
Lord Westmeath was married three times. He married firstly Lady Emily Anne Bennet Elizabeth Cecil, daughter of James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury, and Lady Emily Mary Hill, on 29 May 1812. They had two children:
- William Henry Wellington Brydges Nugent, Lord Delvin (24 November 1818 – 16 November 1819)
- Lady Rosa Emily Mary Anne Nugent (1814–1883), married Fulke Greville-Nugent, 1st Baron Greville.
Lord Westmeath and Lady Emily divorced in 1827. He married, secondly, Maria Jervis on 18 February 1858. They divorced in 1862. He married, lastly, Elizabeth Charlotte Verner, on 12 July 1864. He had an illegitimate daughter, Eliza Nugent (c. 1806 – 14 September 1877), who married Alfred Harley, 6th Earl of Oxford and Mortimer.
Lord Westmeath died in May 1871, aged 85, when the marquessate became extinct. He was succeeded in his remaining titles by his kinsman, Anthony Nugent. The Marchioness of Westmeath died in September 1882.


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Multi-national energy services company Wood Group just revealed how its revenue was utterly crippled by tanking oil prices.
The London-listed Wood Group confirmed in its results statement for the first six months of the year that revenue dropped by almost 20% and net profit fell by $US23.7 million (£15.2 million) to $US116.8 millon (£75 million) compared to the same period last year.
The group's boss also reiterated to investors that they are already planning a range of cost cuts to battle against market conditions that have "little prospect of short term improvement."
It has already cut headcount by 13% since December and said this contributed to overhead cost savings of $US40 million (£26 million) for the first half of this year. It added this "significantly ahead of initial estimates."
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Tuesday May 22, 2018 was an interesting day for me; and, I am guessing for the retail home improvement b-to-b industry too. For me, I took the day off and went with my daughter on her school's 5th grade field trip to the Mystic Seaport, coined the Museum of America and the Sea in Mystic, CT.
For those of you who are not familiar with Mystic, CT it is a small town in the southeastern part of the state that is along the Mystic river that flows into the Long Island Sound which is access to the Atlantic ocean. So, it is a seaside town and the Mystic Seaport Museum re-created the 19th century seagoing village NOT with replicas but real buildings fully staffed with the most amazing historians, storytellers, cooks and musicians. It is quite impressive and really brings history to life. It was a great field trip for the children but all of the parents loved soaking in some history too!
We had an excellent tour guide who was a retired Librarian named Kate. She helped to refresh my memory; plus, I learned new things about 19th century living in Connecticut. The experience was enlightening and sometimes surprising; but, definitely an interesting day for me.
Being involved in the home improvement business-to-business retail world, the internet was blowing up with breaking news while I was enjoying the field trip. We were asked (no, really told) to be role models to the students by not using our phones. So, I had no idea what was going on…until much later.
I finally read the news that a major CEO had left a retailer to head up the second largest home improvement mass retailer. Surprised? Yes, but it makes so much sense.
When DIY home improvement and hardware get under your nails it is hard to get it out. The hardware/home improvement industry has a way of pulling you in and while it is boring and un-exciting to many there are also those of us who love the business. So, as I was walking around exploring and taking in the sites and literally watching history come alive before my own eyes, where was my gaze fixed?
You guessed it! What really caught my eye and interest were the old hardware and maritime stores.
This tiny village back in the day had its hardware store and its mass merchants that were central to the survival of villagers and seamen who relied on these products.
So, Tuesday May 22, 2018 was an interesting day because it reminded me that the hardware/home improvement industry means a lot to me but it also means a lot to so many people out there that contribute and work in the industry.
From the outside, I understand why this executive went back to his hardware/home improvement roots because it draws you in and when you leave it you miss it. I bet he had an interesting Tuesday too!
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Citrus season is in full swing, and bringing vital colour and flavour to the dark, January kitchen. Blood oranges have a limited season but are all the sweeter for it: this blood orange pound cake makes the most of their flavour with a buttery, rich sponge and bright pink blood orange glaze. The original recipe has an optional drizzle, but I felt the cake was moist enough. To make the blood orange pound cake, you will need:
300g caster sugar
3 blood oranges
150g unsalted butter, room temperature
3 large eggs
300g plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
200ml double cream
To decorate:
2 blood oranges
Icing sugar
Optional: handful of flaked almonds, lightly toasted.
Heat the oven to 180C (fan 160C) and lightly grease a large loaf tin, lining with a strip of parchment paper. Put the sugar, butter and orange zest into a stand mixer fitted with the paddle and beat for about 5 minutes until light and fluffy.
Add the eggs, a little at a time, waiting until fully combined before adding more.
Fold in the flour, salt and the baking powder and mix until smooth. Pour in the cream and gently mix to combine. Spoon into the loaf tin and bake for 55-60 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
Allow the cake to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack set over a piece of baking paper. To make the glaze, slowly mix in icing sugar to the orange juice, adding just enough to make a glaze that is thick and pourable. Add a small pinch of salt and mix to combine, this will temper the sweetness a little.
Pour the glaze all over the cake, allowing to drip down the sides. Allow to set for 20-30 minutes before topping with pieces of blood orange and flaked almonds, if you have them. This cake will keep for 3-4 days in an airtight container.
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Edge detection
Edge detection is the name for a set of mathematical methods which aim at identifying points in a digital imageat which the image brightness changes sharply or, more formally, has discontinuities. The points at which imagebrightness changes sharply are typically organized into a set of curved line segments termed edges. The sameproblem of finding discontinuities in 1D signals is known as step detection and the problem of finding signaldiscontinuities over time is known as change detection. Edge detection is a fundamental tool in image processing,machine vision and computer vision, particularly in the areas of feature detection and feature extraction.[1]
MotivationsEdge propertiesA simple edge modelWhy edge detection is a non-trivial taskApproaches5.1 Canny edge detection5.2 Other first-order methods5.3 Thresholding and linking5.4 Edge thinning5.5 Second-order approaches to edge detection5.5.1 Differential edge detection5.6 Phase congruency-based edge detection5.7 Physics-inspired edge detection5.8 Subpixel edge detection6 See also7 References8 Further reading
MotivationsThe purpose of detecting sharpchanges in image brightness isto capture important eventsand changes in properties ofthe world. It can be shown thatunder rather generalassumptions for an imageformation model,discontinuities in imagebrightness are likely tocorrespond to:[2][3]
discontinuities in depth,
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In the ideal case, the result of applying an edge detector to an image may lead to a set of connected curves thatindicate the boundaries of objects, the boundaries of surface markings as well as curves that correspond todiscontinuities in surface orientation. Thus, applying an edge detection algorithm to an image may significantlyreduce the amount of data to be processed and may therefore filter out information that may be regarded as lessrelevant, while preserving the important structural properties of an image. If the edge detection step is successful,the subsequent task of interpreting the information contents in the original image may therefore be substantiallysimplified. However, it is not always possible to obtain such ideal edges from real life images of moderatecomplexity.Edges extracted from non-trivial images are often hampered by fragmentation, meaning that the edge curves arenot connected, missing edge segments as well as false edges not corresponding to interesting phenomena in theimage thus complicating the subsequent task of interpreting the image data.[4]Edge detection is one of the fundamental steps in image processing, image analysis, image pattern recognition,and computer vision techniques.
Edge properties
The edges extracted from a two-dimensional image of a three-dimensional scene can be classified as eitherviewpoint dependent or viewpoint independent. A viewpoint independent edge typically reflects inherentproperties of the three-dimensional objects, such as surface markings and surface shape. A viewpoint dependentedge may change as the viewpoint changes, and typically reflects the geometry of the scene, such as objectsoccluding one another.
A typical edge might for instance be the border between a block of red color and a block of yellow. In contrast aline (as can be extracted by a ridge detector) can be a small number of pixels of a different color on an otherwiseunchanging background. For a line, there may therefore usually be one edge on each side of the line.
Although certain literature has considered the detection of ideal step edges, the edges obtained from naturalimages are usually not at all ideal step edges. Instead they are normally affected by one or several of thefollowing effects:focal blur caused by a finite depth-of-field and finite point spread function.penumbral blur caused by shadows created by light sources of non-zero radius.shading at a smooth object
A number of researchers have used a Gaussian smoothed step edge (an error function) as the simplest extensionof the ideal step edge model for modeling the effects of edge blur in practical applications.[4][5] Thus, aone-dimensional image which has exactly one edge placed atmay be modeled as:
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scale parameter is called the blur scale of the edge. Ideally this scale parameter should be adjusted based on thequality of image to avoid destroying true edges of the image.
To illustrate why edge detection is not a trivial task, consider the problem of detecting edges in the followingone-dimensional signal. Here, we may intuitively say that there should be an edge between the 4th and 5th pixels.5
If the intensity difference were smaller between the 4th and the 5th pixels and if the intensity differences betweenthe adjacent neighboring pixels were higher, it would not be as easy to say that there should be an edge in thecorresponding region. Moreover, one could argue that this case is one in which there are several edges.5
Hence, to firmly state a specific threshold on how large the intensity change between two neighbouring pixelsmust be for us to say that there should be an edge between these pixels is not always simple.[4] Indeed, this is oneof the reasons why edge detection may be a non-trivial problem unless the objects in the scene are particularlysimple and the illumination conditions can be well controlled (see for example, the edges extracted from theimage with the girl above).
There are many methods for edge detection, but most of them can be grouped into two categories, search-basedand zero-crossing based. The search-based methods detect edges by first computing a measure of edge strength,usually a first-order derivative expression such as the gradient magnitude, and then searching for local directionalmaxima of the gradient magnitude using a computed estimate of the local orientation of the edge, usually thegradient direction. The zero-crossing based methods search for zero crossings in a second-order derivativeexpression computed from the image in order to find edges, usually the zero-crossings of the Laplacian or thezero-crossings of a non-linear differential expression. As a pre-processing step to edge detection, a smoothingstage, typically Gaussian smoothing, is almost always applied (see also noise reduction).The edge detection methods that have been published mainly differ in the types of smoothing filters that areapplied and the way the measures of edge strength are computed. As many edge detection methods rely on thecomputation of image gradients, they also differ in the types of filters used for computing gradient estimates inthe x- and y-directions.
A survey of a number of different edge detection methods can be found in (Ziou and Tabbone 1998);[6] see alsothe encyclopedia articles on edge detection in Encyclopedia of Mathematics[3] and Encyclopedia of ComputerScience and Engineering.[7]
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John Canny considered the mathematical problem of deriving an optimal smoothing filter given the criteria ofdetection, localization and minimizing multiple responses to a single edge.[8] He showed that the optimal filtergiven these assumptions is a sum of four exponential terms. He also showed that this filter can be wellapproximated by first-order derivatives of Gaussians. Canny also introduced the notion of non-maximumsuppression, which means that given the presmoothing filters, edge points are defined as points where thegradient magnitude assumes a local maximum in the gradient direction. Looking for the zero crossing of the 2ndderivative along the gradient direction was first proposed by Haralick.[9] It took less than two decades to find amodern geometric variational meaning for that operator that links it to the MarrHildreth (zero crossing of theLaplacian) edge detector. That observation was presented by Ron Kimmel and Alfred Bruckstein.[10]Although his work was done in the early days of computer vision, the Canny edge detector (including itsvariations) is still a state-of-the-art edge detector.[11] Unless the preconditions are particularly suitable, it is hardto find an edge detector that performs significantly better than the Canny edge detector.
The Canny-Deriche detector was derived from similar mathematical criteria as the Canny edge detector, althoughstarting from a discrete viewpoint and then leading to a set of recursive filters for image smoothing instead ofexponential filters or Gaussian filters.[12]
The differential edge detector described below can be seen as a reformulation of Canny's method from theviewpoint of differential invariants computed from a scale space representation leading to a number of advantagesin terms of both theoretical analysis and sub-pixel implementation. In that aspect, Log Gabor filter have beenshown to be a good choice to extract boundaries in natural scenes.[13]
Different gradient operators can be applied to estimate image gradients from the input image or a smoothedversion of it. The simplest approach is to use central differences:
corresponding to the application of the following filter masks to the image data:
The well-known and earlier Sobel operator is based on the following filters:
Given such estimates of first-order image derivatives, the gradient magnitude is then computed as:
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Other first-order difference operators for estimating image gradient have been proposed in the Prewitt operator,Roberts cross and Frei-Chen.It is possible to extend filters dimension to avoid the issue of recognizing edge in low SNR image. The cost ofthis operation is loss in terms of resolution. Examples are Extended Prewitt 7x7 and Abdou
Once we have computed a measure of edge strength (typically the gradient magnitude), the next stage is to applya threshold, to decide whether edges are present or not at an image point. The lower the threshold, the more edgeswill be detected, and the result will be increasingly susceptible to noise and detecting edges of irrelevant featuresin the image. Conversely a high threshold may miss subtle edges, or result in fragmented edges.
If the edge is applied to just the gradient magnitude image, the resulting edges will in general be thick and sometype of edge thinning post-processing is necessary. For edges detected with non-maximum suppression however,the edge curves are thin by definition and the edge pixels can be linked into edge polygon by an edge linking(edge tracking) procedure. On a discrete grid, the non-maximum suppression stage can be implemented byestimating the gradient direction using first-order derivatives, then rounding off the gradient direction to multiplesof 45 degrees, and finally comparing the values of the gradient magnitude in the estimated gradient direction.A commonly used approach to handle the problem of appropriate thresholds for thresholding is by usingthresholding with hysteresis. This method uses multiple thresholds to find edges. We begin by using the upperthreshold to find the start of an edge. Once we have a start point, we then trace the path of the edge through theimage pixel by pixel, marking an edge whenever we are above the lower threshold. We stop marking our edgeonly when the value falls below our lower threshold. This approach makes the assumption that edges are likely tobe in continuous curves, and allows us to follow a faint section of an edge we have previously seen, withoutmeaning that every noisy pixel in the image is marked down as an edge. Still, however, we have the problem ofchoosing appropriate thresholding parameters, and suitable thresholding values may vary over the image.
Edge thinning
Edge thinning is a technique used to remove the unwanted spurious points on the edges in an image. Thistechnique is employed after the image has been filtered for noise (using median, Gaussian filter etc.), the edgeoperator has been applied (like the ones described above) to detect the edges and after the edges have beensmoothed using an appropriate threshold value. This removes all the unwanted points and if applied carefully,results in one pixel thick edge elements.Advantages:
There are many popular algorithms used to do this, one such is described below:
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4. Do this in multiple passes, i.e. after the north pass, use the same semi processed image in the other passesand so on.5. Remove a point if:The point has no neighbors in the North (if you are in the north pass, and respective directions for otherpasses).The point is not the end of a line.The point is isolated.Removing the points will not cause to disconnect its neighbors in any way.6. Else keep the point.
The number of passes across direction should be chosen according to the level of accuracy desired.
Some edge-detection operators are instead based upon second-order derivatives of the intensity. This essentiallycaptures the rate of change in the intensity gradient. Thus, in the ideal continuous case, detection ofzero-crossings in the second derivative captures local maxima in the gradient.
The early Marr-Hildreth operator is based on the detection of zero-crossings of the Laplacian operator applied toa Gaussian-smoothed image. It can be shown, however, that this operator will also return false edgescorresponding to local minima of the gradient magnitude. Moreover, this operator will give poor localization atcurved edges. Hence, this operator is today mainly of historical interest.Differential edge detectionA more refined second-order edge detection approach which automatically detects edges with sub-pixel accuracy,uses the following differential approach of detecting zero-crossings of the second-order directional derivative inthe gradient direction:Following the differential geometric way of expressing the requirement of non-maximum suppression proposedby Lindeberg,[4][14] let us introduce at every image point a local coordinate system, with the -directionparallel to the gradient direction. Assuming that the image has been pre-smoothed by Gaussian smoothing and ascale space representationat scale has been computed, we can require that the gradient magnitudeof the scale space representation, which is equal to the first-order directional derivative in the -direction ,should have its first order directional derivative in the -direction equal to zerowhile the second-order directional derivative in the -direction of
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where,...denote partial derivatives computed from a scale space representation obtained bysmoothing the original image with a Gaussian kernel. In this way, the edges will be automatically obtained ascontinuous curves with sub-pixel accuracy. Hysteresis thresholding can also be applied to these differential andsubpixel edge segments.In practice, first-order derivative approximations can be computed by central differences as described above,while second-order derivatives can be computed from the scale space representation according to:
Higher-order derivatives for the third-order sign condition can be obtained in an analogous fashion.
A recent development in edge detection techniques takes a frequency domain approach to finding edge locations.Phase congruency (also known as phase coherence) methods attempt to find locations in an image where allsinusoids in the frequency domain are in phase. These locations will generally correspond to the location of aperceived edge, regardless of whether the edge is represented by a large change in intensity in the spatial domain.A key benefit of this technique is that it responds strongly to Mach bands, and avoids false positives typicallyfound around roof edges. A roof edge, is a discontinuity in the first order derivative of a grey-level profile.[15]
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microscopy but on digital images. PST is also applicable to digital images as well as temporal, time series, data.
To increase the precision of edge detection, several subpixel techniques had been proposed, including curvefitting, moment-based, reconstructive, and more recently partial area effect methods.[19] These methods havedifferent characteristics. Curve fitting methods are computationally simple but are easily affected by noise.Moment-based methods use integral pixels to reduce the effect of noise but require more computations.Reconstructive methods use horizontal gradients or vertical gradients to build a curve and find the peak of thecurve as the sub-pixel edge. Partial area effect methods are based on the hypothesis that each pixel value dependson the area at both sides of the edge inside that pixel, producing accurate individual estimation for every edgepixel.
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Convolution#ApplicationsFeature detection (computer vision) for other low-level feature detectorsImage derivativesGabor filterImage noise reductionKirsch operator for edge detection in the compass directionsRidge detection for relations between edge detectors and ridge detectorsLog Gabor filterPhase Stretch Transform
1. Umbaugh, Scott E (2010). Digital image processing and analysis : human and computer vision applications withCVIPtools (2nd ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. ISBN 9-7814-3980-2052.2. H.G. Barrow and J.M. Tenenbaum (1981) "Interpreting line drawings as three-dimensional surfaces", ArtificialIntelligence, vol 17, issues 1-3, pages 75-116.3. Lindeberg, Tony (2001), "Edge detection", in Hazewinkel, Michiel, Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Springer,ISBN 978-1-55608-010-44. T. Lindeberg (1998) "Edge detection and ridge detection with automatic scale selection", International Journal ofComputer Vision, 30, 2, pages 117--154. (http://www.nada.kth.se/cvap/abstracts/cvap191.html)5. W. Zhang and F. Bergholm (1997) "Multi-scale blur estimation and edge type classification for scene analysis",International Journal of Computer Vision, vol 24, issue 3, Pages: 219 - 250.6. D. Ziou and S. Tabbone (1998) "Edge detection techniques: An overview", International Journal of Pattern Recognitionand Image Analysis, 8(4):537559, 19987. J. M. Park and Y. Lu (2008) "Edge detection in grayscale, color, and range images", in B. W. Wah (editor)Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering, doi 10.1002/9780470050118.ecse603(http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/emrw/9780470050118/ecse/article/ecse603/current/abstract)8. J. Canny (1986) "A computational approach to edge detection", IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and MachineIntelligence, vol 8, pages 679-714.9. R. Haralick, (1984) "Digital step edges from zero crossing of second directional derivatives", IEEE Trans. on PatternAnalysis and Machine Intelligence, 6(1):5868.10. R. Kimmel and A.M. Bruckstein (2003) "On regularized Laplacian zero crossings and other optimal edge integrators",International Journal of Computer Vision, 53(3) pages 225-243. (http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~ron/PAPERS/laplacian_ijcv2003.pdf)11. Shapiro L.G. & Stockman G.C. (2001) Computer Vision. London etc.: Prentice Hall, Page 326.12. R. Deriche (1987) Using Canny's criteria to derive an optimal edge detector recursively implemented, Int. J. Computer4/17/2016 10:43 PM
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