journal article·2025-12-18Open access

Generalizations of Choquet-like Integrals by Restricted Dissimilarity Functions Applied to Multi-Channel Edge Detection Problems

Miqueias Amorim, Giancarlo Lucca, Bruno L. Dalmazo, Cedric Marco-Detchart, Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro

Applied Sciences· Volume 15· Issue 24

Abstract

Edge detection is a fundamental component of vision tasks, yet the fusion stage that combines multi-cue evidence has received limited attention. We explore the use of a family of Choquet-based fusion operators generalised by restricted dissimilarity functions for robust, training-free, single-scale edge detection on the BSDS500 dataset. Local cues are extracted from eight connected neighbours after Gaussian or Gravitational smoothing; ordered samples are aggregated with a fuzzy power measure using three operator families: d-CF, d-XC, and d-CC integrals. Binary edge maps are obtained through non-maximum suppression and Rosin thresholding. Evaluation follows the Bezdek framework for edge detection, utilising the Estrada–Jepson correspondence, and extracts precision, recall, and the F-score. All inferential statistics are restricted to within-family comparisons among our variants. The main results are that gravitational smoothing consistently improves performance, and the best performance is achieved with the absolute-difference restricted dissimilarity under gravitational smoothing. Under Gaussian smoothing, the best performance is obtained with the modulus of the squared difference and with the squared difference of the roots. These findings indicate that restricted-dissimilarity-based Choquet operators, particularly d-CC integrals with gravitational smoothing, form a straightforward and interpretable fusion mechanism, motivating further analysis of component interactions and multi-scale extensions.
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OpenAlex topics: Medical Image Segmentation Techniques · Image and Object Detection Techniques · Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques

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Centro de Ciências Computacionais, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Av. Itália km 08, Campus Carreiros, Rio Grande 96201-900, Brazil

Centro de Desenvolvimento Tecnológico (CDTEC), Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPEL), Rua Gomes Carneiro 0 1, Pelotas 96010-610, Brazil

Departamento de Estadistica, Informatica y Matematicas, Universidad Publica de Navarra, 31006 Pamplona, Spain

IdiSNA, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra, Hospital Universitario de Navarra (HUN), 31008 Pamplona, Spain

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