Efficient unsupervised estimation of second-order B-spline contour descriptors

Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages

  El Doker, Tarek A ^a   Mlsna, Phillip A ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; ERROR CORRECTION;

CONTOUR DESCRIPTORS;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0036976597     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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