This document describes a cellular automaton structure called cellular feature for extracting linear and curved features from images. Cellular feature represents the orientation and location of edges in an image through a local iterative computation method. Neighboring cells are defined and the integration algorithm performs parallel, local computations to integrate edge features on a digital plane.
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A single global feature of image = A whole image
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Global feature extraction
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