Three-Dimensional Shape Analysis Using Moments and Fourier Descriptors

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1988, Pages 937-943

  Reeves, Anthony P ^a   Prokop, R J ^a   Andrews, Susan E ^a   Kuhl, Frank P ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b US Army ARDC AMCCOM ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Feature representation; feature vectors; Fourier descriptors; global shape analysis; moments; pattern recognition; shape identification; three dimensional objects

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--VECTORS;

FOURIER DESCRIPTORS; IMAGE SHAPE ANALYSIS; MOMENT METHODS; SIX-AIRPLANE EXPERIMENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0024104055     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.9115     Document Type: Article

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