A multiple point boundary smoothing algorithm

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 657-668

  Hu, Jianming ^a   Yu, Donggang ^a   Yan, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Boundary smoothing; Chain code; Convex concave structure; Feature extraction; Shape description; Shape matching

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE CODING;

BOUNDARY SMOOTHING ALGORITHM; CHAIN CODE; SHAPE DESCRIPTION; SHAPE MATCHING;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0032089772     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(98)00043-9     Document Type: Article

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