Shape encoding: A biologically inspired method of transforming boundary images into ensembles of shape-related features

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 749-759

  Van Tonder, Gert J ^b   Krüger, Johan J ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

BIOLOGICAL VISION; SHAPE ENCODING;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 0031257481     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3477.623229     Document Type: Review

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