The S-kernel: A measure of symmetry of objects

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 839-852

  Zavidovique, Bertrand ^a,b   Di Gesù, Vito ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Correlation; Erosion; Feature extraction; Symmetry measure; Symmetry transforms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EROSION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTIMIZATION;

FIRST ALGORITHM; S-KERNEL; SYMMETRY MEASURE; SYMMETRY TRANSFORMS;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 33750499719     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2006.04.013     Document Type: Article

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