A Comparative Study of Image Segmentation using Edge-Based Approach

Image segmentation is the process to segment a given image into several parts so that each of these parts present in the
image can be further analyzed. There are numerous techniques of image segmentation available in literature. In this paper, authors have been analyzed the edge-based approach for image segmentation. They have been implemented the different edge operators like Prewitt, Sobel, LoG, and Canny on the basis of their threshold parameter. The results of these operators have been shown for
various images.

• Rajiv Kumar
• Arthanariee A. M.

• Edge Operator
• Edge-based Segmentation
• Image Segmentation
• Matlab 10.4.

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