Line Detection Using Radon Transform

Abstract

To extract features from digital images, it is useful to be able to find simpleshapes (straight lines, circles, ellipses, etc.).In order to achieve this goal, one can be able to detect a group of pixels that are ona straight line or a smooth curve. That is what a Hough transform is supposed todo.Since the Hough transform is a special case of Radon transform then line detectionprocess is accomplished using Radon transform.In this paper, software for line detection using Radon transform has been designedand implemented. Then the implemented software is tested under many conditionsand circumstances, the results are discussed, and many points are concluded fromthe results.

Keywords

• curve detection
• image processing
• hough transform
• radon transform