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thunderstar111

What does p represent here? I recall that we take image gradients in regions not pixelwise right? Does the p represent the center of these regions?

motoole2

Large $P$ represents the set of pixels within a window centered about the pixel of interest. Small $p$ represents the individual pixel coordinates contained within that window. So perhaps more accurately, one should rewrite the sum as $\sum_{p\in P} I_x(p)I_y(p)$.

As for the image gradients, we have a gradient value at every pixel in the image.

Roger

just to make sure, so this is $\sum_{p\in P} I_x(p)I_y(p)$, not $\sum_{p\in P} (I_x * I_y)(p)$?

motoole2

Correct---it's the former. (The asterisk in the slide refers to an element-wise product between two windows.)