On Critical Point Detection of Digital Shapes

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 737-748

  Chirlian, Paul M ^b  

^a James River Corporation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

digitized contour; feature extraction; Feature point detection; nonlinear algorithm; shape analysis; shape recognition; shape representation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CRITICAL POINT DETECTION; DIGITIZED CONTOUR; SHAPE ANALYSIS; SHAPE RECOGNITION; SHAPE REPRESENTATION;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 0029358692     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.400564     Document Type: Article

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