Zoom-Invariant Vision of Figural Shape: The Mathematics of Cores

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-71

  Pizer, Stephen M ^a   Eberly, David ^a   Fritsch, Daniel S ^a   Morse, Bryan S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b 3361 TMCB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

ZOOM INVARIANT VISION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0031649399     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1997.0563     Document Type: Article

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