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Edges and corners

A discussion of image edge and corner detection

A continuation of our previous video on feature-based image analysis methods.

Here we consider how Sobel filtering is used to estimate the magnitude and direction of potential edges in images, and how how the idea of edge detection is extended to detect corners in images.

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