A NEW EDGE DETECTION METHOD THROUGH TEMPLATE MATCHING
Mao‐Jiun J. Wang, SHIAU-CHYI CHANG, Chih‐Ming Liu, Wen‐Yen Wu · International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence · 1994
This paper reviews some gradient edge detection methods and proposes a new detector — the template matching edge detector (TMED). This detector utilizes the concepts of pattern analysis and the template matching of 3×3 masks. A set of performance criteria was used to evaluate the gradient edge detectors as well as the template matching edge detector. The results indicate that the new method is superior to the other gradient edge detectors. In addition, the template matching edge detector has also demonstrated good performance on noisy images. It can obtain very precise edge detection of single pixel width.