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- What is the difference between Prewitt and Sobel?
- What is Prewitt operator in image processing?
- What does Prewitt filter do?
- What is the Prewitt mask?
What is the difference between Prewitt and Sobel?
Prewitt operator is similar to the Sobel operator and is used for detecting vertical and horizontal edges in images. However, unlike the Sobel, this operator does not place any emphasis on the pixels that are near to the center of the mask.
What is Prewitt operator in image processing?
The Prewitt operator is used in image processing, particularly within edge detection algorithms. Technically, it is a discrete differentiation operator, computing an approximation of the gradient of the image intensity function.
What does Prewitt filter do?
The Prewitt filter is similar to the Sobel in that it uses two 3 x 3 kernels. One for changes in the horizontal direction, and one for changes in the vertical direction. The two kernels are convolved with the original image to calculate the approximations of the derivatives.
What is the Prewitt mask?
Prewitt mask is a first-order derivative mask. In the graph representation of Prewitt-mask's result, the edge is represented by the local maxima or local minima. Both the first and second derivative masks follow these three properties: More weight means more edge detection.
