Geometric Shape Recognition of Freeform Curves and Surfaces

Graphical Models and Image Processing

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 417-433

  Elber, Gershon ^a   Kim, Myung Soo ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURVE FITTING; DATA TRANSFER; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; POLYNOMIALS;

GEOMETRIC SHAPE RECOGNITION;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031273301     PISSN: 10773169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gmip.1997.0441     Document Type: Article

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