摘要 |
To extract the ridge directivities properly and precisely by suppressing a bad influence of noises having a periodicity. A ridge directivity is assumed along some direction codes set in advance, and the reliability indicating the probability of the assumed direction code being consistent with a valley is obtained for each direction code by a unit of pixel based on a difference between a density of a target pixel and densities of pixels neighboring to the target pixel in a direction orthogonal to the assumed direction code, and the direction having the maximum reliability is determined as the ridge directivity of the target pixel.
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