- Edgel
Edgel is a term commonly used in
computer vision research to refer to apixel in an image that has the characteristics of anedge , as defined in theimage processing sense, and may also be used to refer to the orientation and/or magnitude data of the edge. The term originated as an abbreviation of the term "edge pixel", and more information on the methods used to identify edgels can be found in theedge detection article.
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