Detection ellipses by finding lines of symmetry in the images via an hough transform applied to straight lines

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 857-866

  Sewisy, Adel A ^a   Leberl, Franz ^b  

^a Assiut University   (Egypt)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Accumulator array; Ellipses detection; Hough transform; Lines detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346512609     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0262-8856(01)00049-X     Document Type: Article

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