Tracing boundary contours in a binary image

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 125-131

  Ren, Mingwu ^a   Yang, Jingyu ^a   Sun, Han ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Boundary contour tracing; Boundary following; Chain code; Image representation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER VISION; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

BINARY IMAGES; MACHINE VISION SYSTEMS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036468089     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0262-8856(01)00091-9     Document Type: Article

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