A simple operator for very precise estimation of ellipses

Proceedings - Fourth Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, CRV 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 21-28

  Ouellet, Jean Nicolas ^a   Hébert, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ALGEBRAIC DISTANCE; GRADIENT INFORMATION;

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

EID: 34548715321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CRV.2007.8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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