2D shape segmentation: A new approach

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 133-140

  Wu, Kenong ^a   Levine, Martin D ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

2D shape; Charge density distribution; Corner detection; Electrostatics; Finite elements; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; EDGE DETECTION; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTROSTATICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INVARIANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CHARGE DENSITY DISTRIBUTION; CORNER DETECTION; SHAPE SEGMENTATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL CONTOUR;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0030574651     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-8655(95)00107-7     Document Type: Article

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