Abstract: Edge Detection is an image processing technique for finding the boundaries of objects within images. It works by detecting discontinuities in brightness. Edge detection is used for Image Image Segmentation and data extraction in areas such as image processing, computer vision, and machine vision. In an image, an edge is a curve that follows a path of rapid change in image intensity. Edges are often associated with the boundaries of objects in a scene. Edge detection is used to identify the edges in an image. To find edges, you can use the edge function. This function looks for places in the image where the intensity changes rapidly, using one of these two criteria. Places where the first derivative of the intensity is larger in magnitude than some threshold Places where the second derivative of the intensity has a zero crossing edge provides a number of derivative estimators, each of which implements one of the definitions above. For some of these estimators, you can specify whether the operation should be sensitive to horizontal edges, vertical edges, or both. edge returns a binary image containing 1's where edges are found and 0's elsewhere. The most powerful edge-detection method that edge provides is the Canny method. The Canny method differs from the other edge-detection methods in that it uses two different thresholds (to detect strong and weak edges), and includes the weak edges in the output only if they are connected to strong edges. This method is therefore less likely than the others to be fooled by noise, and more likely to detect true weak edges.

Keywords: Edge Detection, Image Processing Technique, Image Segmentation, Data Extraction, Canny method.