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Canny Edge Detector in Java

With the implementation of the PHOG descriptor I came around the situation that no well-performing Canny Edge Detector in pure Java was available. “Pure” in my case means, that it just takes a Java BufferedImage instance and computes the edges. Therefore, I had to implement my own 🙂

As a result there is now a “simple implementation” available as part of LIRE. It takes a BufferedImage and returns another BufferedImage, which contains all the edges as black pixels, while the non-edges are white. Thresholds can be changed and the blurring filter using for preprocessing can be changed in code. Usage is dead simple:

BufferedImage in = ImageIO.read(new File("testdata/wang-1000/128.jpg")); 
CannyEdgeDetector ced = new CannyEdgeDetector(in, 40, 80); 
ImageIO.write(ced.filter(), "png", new File("out.png"));

The result is the picture below:

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