Rapid vehicle edge detection based on cellular neural network

This paper presents a rapid edge detection method for vehicle using the two-dimensional cellular neural network (CNN). In the method, two adaptive templates for edge detection are experimentally designed, and background noise elimination is also concerned. Finally, the performance of the proposed CNN detector is evaluated on different vehicle images, and it is also compared with some other edge detectors. Simulation experiment results shows that the CNN method could achieve good performance in vehicle edge detection.