Canny Edge Image - Noise removal

Question

I have a Canny edge detected image of a ball (see link below) which contains a lot of noisy edges. What are the best image processing techniques that I can use to remove th

Answer 1

The best way to remove those is probably not to have them in the first place if you can. If the lines are noisy artifacts in the image apply a smoothing filter such as a Gaussian to level the image out. -> Gaussian filter info

Removing them once they are there is tricky and would probably involve some higher level shape recognition stuff