Discrete, nonlinear curvature-dependent contour evolution

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1949-1959

  Thompson, Scott ^a   Rosenfeld, Azriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Chain code; Contour evolution; Curvature; Curve evolution; Shape

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY;

CHAIN CODES; CURVATURE-DEPENDENT CONTOUR EVOLUTION PROCESSES; HEAT EQUATIONS;

EDGE DETECTION;

CURVATURE;

EID: 0032463294     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(98)00062-4     Document Type: Article

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