Contour matching: A curvature-based approach

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 181-189

  Park, Jong Seung ^a   Han, Joon Hee ^a  

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

Author keywords

Contour matching; Contour tracking; Curvature; Velocity field

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER VISION; ERRORS; OPTICAL FLOWS; VELOCITY;

CONTOUR MATCHING; CONTOUR TRACKING; CURVATURE; VELOCITY FIELD;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032024717     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0262-8856(97)00064-4     Document Type: Article

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