Optimally isotropic Laplacian operator.

Kamgar-Parsi, B; Kamgar-Parsi, B; Rosenfeld, A · IEEE Trans Image Process · 1999

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Laplacian operators used in the literature for digital image processing are not rotationally invariant. We examine the anisotropy of 3 x 3 Laplacian operators for images quantized in square pixels, and find the operator which has the minimum overall anisotropy.