Color image edge detection method using VTV denoising and color difference

The traditional Canny edge uses Gaussian filter to suppress the noise, it also smoothes out the image edges. An improved Canny edge detection method for color image is proposed in this paper, the improved method uses fast vectorial total variation (VTV) minimization model to remove noise in color image, and then calculates the color difference and direction in CIELAB color space, which is used for non-maximal suppression. Finally, the improved method extracts the edges by the double-threshold method. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves better performance than the traditional Canny edge detector. It can remove noise while preserving the image edges, and effectively detect the image edges.