Fast polygonal approximation of digital curves using relaxed straightness properties

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1590-1602

  Bhowmick, Partha ^a   Bhattacharya, Bhargab B ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Digital geometry; Digital straight line; Polygonal approximation; Shape analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GEOMETRY; PIXELS;

DIGITAL GEOMETRY; DIGITAL STRAIGHT LINE; POLYGONAL APPROXIMATION; SHAPE ANALYSIS;

IMAGE RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 34548125378     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.1082     Document Type: Article

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