Local symmetries of digital contours from their chain codes

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1737-1749

  Iñesta, José Manuel ^a   Buendía, Mateo ^b   Sarti, María Ángeles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biomedical applications; Chain codes; Corner detection; Curve description; Feature extraction; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; EDGE DETECTION;

CHAIN CODES; CURVE DESCRIPTION; LOCAL SYMMETRIC DEFICIENCY (LSD);

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0030269820     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-3203(96)00026-X     Document Type: Article

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