Nonparametric Segmentation of Curves into Various Representations

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1995, Pages 1140-1153

  Rosin, Paul L ^a   West, Geoff A W ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

2D; 3D; circular; curve representation; elliptical; least square elllipse fitting; multistage; nonparametric; parabolic arcs; segmentation; significance; superelliptical

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CURVE FITTING; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; POLYNOMIALS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CIRCULAR ARCS; ELLIPTICAL ARCS; LEAST SQUARE ELLIPSE FITTING; PARABOLIC ARCS; SUPERELLIPTICAL ARCS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0029492450     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.476507     Document Type: Article

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