The Utilization of the Radon Transform for the Extraction of the Orientation of Linear Features in Binary Images

Sean Matz

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The Utilization of the Radon Transform for the Extraction of the Orientation of Linear Features in Binary Images

Sean Matz

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This paper considers the idea of using the Radon transform to extract the orientation features of lines in binary images. The Radon transform sends a line at a particular orientation in image space to a point in feature space. The ensuing set of points in feature space is called a sinogram. This computation is usually performed for a large group of angles (over the interval [0,179] degrees taken in integer increments in this paper). Therefore, linear features at specific orientations will be mapped to points having maximum value at particular angles. For angular spacing of at least 5 degrees, the peaks of the sinogram at the angles corresponding to the orientations of the lines will be clearly visible (in a bar plot of sinogram peaks) above sinogram values at other angles. The mapping from image space to feature space accomplished by the Radon transform which maps rectangular coordinates (x,y) to coordinates (range, angle) provides for the garnering of the orientation of the linear features in binary images. In particular, the coordinates (range, angle) in the sinogram allow for distinguishing between lines oriented at one angle versus lines oriented at another angle or angles. This particular property of the sinogram allows for the extraction of the orientation features of lines in an image.

Published in	Mathematics and Computer Science (Volume 6, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.mcs.20210601.14
Page(s)	24-29
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Angles, Lines, Orientation, Radon Transform, Sinogram

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