title: Blob detection by relaxation.
abstract: A blob is a compact region lighter (or darker) than its background surrounded by a smoothly curved edge. Blobs can be detected using cooperating relaxation processes to enhance their interior and edge probabilities. A discussion of the processes working independently and together is given. The use of a pyramidal relaxation structure, the use of the closedness of contours as an additional information source, and the extension of cooperating relaxation processes to a time sequence of images are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Computer Vision Laboratory, Computer Science Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742; Computervision Corporation, Bedford, MA 01730.
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Danker
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rosenfeld