Explain Hough Transformation

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Haoest picture Haoest · Jan 17, 2011 · Viewed 20.9k times · Source

I am just being adventurous and taking my first baby step toward computer vision. I tried to implement the Hough Transformation on my own but I just don't get the whole picture. I read the wikipedia entry, and even the original "use of the hough transformation to detect lines and curves in pictures" by richard Duda and Peter Hart, but didn't help.

Can someone help explaining to me in a more friendly language?

Answer

mlai picture mlai · Nov 24, 2013

Here's a very basic, visual explanation of how a Hough Transform works for detecting lines in an image:

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