An adaptive split-and-merge method for smoothing and compression of image contours

ISSPA 1999 - Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Signal Processing and Its Applications

Volumn 1, Issue , 1999, Pages 79-82

  Xiao, Yi ^a   Zou, Ju Jia ^a   Yan, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING;

ADAPTIVE TOLERANCE; COMPRESSION OF IMAGES; DIGITAL IMAGE; IMAGE CONTOUR; QUANTIZATION ERRORS; SHAPE MATCHING ALGORITHMS; SPLIT-AND-MERGE; TOLERANCE VALUES;

DATA COMPRESSION;

EID: 33750922551     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSPA.1999.818117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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