Recent advances on image edge detection: A comprehensive review

Edge detection is one of the most important and fundamental problems in the field of computer vision and image processing. Edge contours extracted from images are widely used as critical cues for various image understanding tasks such as image segmentation, object detection, image retrieval, and corner detection. The purpose of this paper is to review the latest developments on image edge detection. Firstly, the definition and properties of edges are introduced. Secondly, the existing edge detection methods are classified and introduced in detail. Thirdly, the existing widely used datasets and evaluation criteria for edge detection methods are summarized. Finally, future research directions for edge detection are elaborated.