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Structure tensor of a function and the distribution of gradients

In computer vision, one often computes what's known as the structure tensor of an image. The structure tensor of a an image (i.e. a function) is a matrix that, I quote from Wikipedia. "summarizes ...
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What do eigenvalues have to do with pictures?

I am trying to write a program that will perform OCR on a mobile phone, and I recently encountered this article : Can someone explain this to me ?