Shape description and representation by ellipsoids

Signal Processing: Image Communication

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 275-290

  Kimoto, Tadahiko ^a   Yasuda, Yasuhiko ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Density distribution function; Shape decomposition; Shape description; Shape representation; Tree structure

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DENSITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; ELLIPSOIDS; SHAPE DECOMPOSITION; SHAPE DESCRIPTION; SHAPE REPRESENTATION;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031101753     PISSN: 09235965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0923-5965(96)00035-5     Document Type: Article

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