A generic shape descriptor using Bezier curves

International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, ITCC

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 95-100

  Sohel, Ferdous Ahmed ^a   Karmakar, Gour C ^a   Dooley, Laurence S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bezier curve; Control points; Shape description; Significant points; Supplementary points

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); OBJECT RECOGNITION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

BEZIER CURVES; CONTROL POINTS; SHAPE DESCRIPTION; SIGNIFICANT POINTS; SUPPLEMENTARY POINTS;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 24744446434     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/itcc.2005.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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