Shape Discrimination Using Fourier Descriptors

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

Volumn SMC-7, Issue 3, 1977, Pages 170-179

  Persoon, Eric ^a   Fu, King Sun ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0017368497     PISSN: 00189472     EISSN: 21682909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.1977.4309681     Document Type: Article

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