“…Recently, as an alternative to the intensity correlation methods, the use of 'orientation' information in correlation based matching methods has been suggested in various literatures [6,7,8], giving more emphasis to the 'form' rather than the fragile color or intensity constancy assumption. However, the edge feature of object is strong structured information, and the efficiency of many image processing and computer vision tasks depends on the perfection of detecting meaningful edges [9,10].…”