Algorithms for Shape Analysis of Contours and Waveforms

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn PAMI-2, Issue 4, 1980, Pages 301-312

  Pavlidis, Theodosios ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chain codes; corner detection; curvature; decomposition techniques; Fourier shape descriptors; shape analysis; syntactic analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING - SUBROUTINES;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0019036866     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.1980.4767029     Document Type: Article

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