Approximate maximum likelihood estimation of circle parameters

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 723-734

  Chan, Y T ^a   Lee, B H ^b   Thomas, S M ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Circle fitting; Maximum likelihood function; Nonlinear estimation

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CIRCLE FITTING; CIRCLE PARAMETER; CRAME-RAO LOWER BOUNDS; CRAMER RAO LOWER BOUND; GEOMETRIC DISTANCES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ALGORITHM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD FUNCTION; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NOISY MEASUREMENTS; NON-LINEAR ESTIMATION;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 21444438322     PISSN: 00223239     EISSN: 15732878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10957-005-2098-y     Document Type: Article

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