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This paper proposes a new concept of composite derivative, which is realized by the combination of fractional-order differentiation and fractional-order integration. Then, the composite derivative is applied to edge detection and a novel edge detection algorithm is formulated. The experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed operator. Finally, qualitative and quantitative comparisons with classic integer-order operators (Roberts, Prewitt and Sobel et al.) are performed. The comparisons show the promising feature of the proposed algorithm, which is reflected in the compromise between detection accuracy and noise suppression.
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The work was supported by NSFC under Grant 61074161 and Grant 61034005, SRFDP under Grant 20103218120014, and by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and Funding of Jiangsu Innovation Program for Graduate Education under Grant CXLX12\(_-\)0157 and Grant CXZZ12\(_-\)0158.
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Pan, X., Ye, Y., Cheng, J. et al. Composite derivative and edge detection. SIViP 8, 523–531 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-013-0539-x
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