Introducing a crystalline flow for a contour figure analysis

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E86-D, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1198-1205

  Hontani, Hidekata ^a   Deguchi, Koichiro ^b  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contour; Corner; Crystalline; Polygon; Wulff shape

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CONTOUR FIGURE ANALYSIS; CRYSTALLINE FLOW; CURVATURE FLOW; WULFF SHAPE;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0142118467     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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