edge following

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

The glossary is being gradually proof checked, but currently has many typos and misspellings.

Edge following occurs after edge detection in a computer vision pipeline. When one or more pixels or points in an image have been identified as potentially lying in an edge, neighbouring pixels are examined to see if they can be included in the same edge – that is edge detection labels points as being potentially on an edge, whereas edge following turns these into (often curvy) lines.

Used in Chap. 12: pages 170, 186

Following edges.