Speed up the computation of randomized algorithms for detecting lines, circles, and ellipses using novel tuning- and LUT-based voting platform

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 132-149

  Chung, Kuo Liang ^a   Huang, Yong Huai ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bresenham's drawing paradigm; Circles; Ellipses; Lines; Randomized algorithms

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BRESENHAMS DRAWING PARADIGM; RANDOMIZED ALGORITHMS;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;

EID: 34249792106     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2007.01.012     Document Type: Article

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