Robust Contour Decomposition using a Constant Curvature Criterion

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 41-51

  Wuescher, Daniel M ^a,b   Boyer, Kim L ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Intergraph Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Contour partitioning curvature; discrete curvature; image processing; nonlinear filters; sequential segment extraction; shape analysis; stereopsis; voting methods

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

CONTOUR DECOMPOSITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ROBUST DECOMPOSITION; ZERO CROSSING PROBLEMS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0025956438     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.67629     Document Type: Article

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