Directionality Analysis

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Directionality Analysis
Contact: Fernando Alonso-Fernandez

Welcome to this lecture on Directionality Analysis.


Part 1: Edges, corners, lines, circles

Teaching Material

Get slides from Google docs (ppt) here


References and sources

R. Szeliski, “Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications”, Springer 2010


Simon J.D. Prince, “Computer Vision: Models, Learning, and Inference”, Cambridge University Press, 2012


R. Klette, “Concise Computer Vision”, Springer, 2014

  • Sections 2.3.3, (edges), 2.3.4 (corners), 2.4. (edges), 3.4 (lines and circles)
  • Get chapter 2 and chapter 3


Part 2: Structure tensor

Teaching Material

Get slides from Google docs (ppt) here


References and sources

“Hard” references (full mathematical description):

J. Bigun, Vision with Direction, Springer, 2006

  • Chapters 10, 11


J. Bigun, T. Bigun, K.Nilsson, Recognition by Symmetry Derivatives and the Generalized Structure Tensor, IEEE Trans on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 26, n. 12, December 2004


A more “soft” source with a light, introductory description is:

D. Teferi, Recognition and Evaluation by Video Synthesis Methods and Symmetry Features, PhD Thesis, Chalmers University of Technology, 2009

  • Sections 2.4, 5.2)
  • Get it here