Efficient generation of simple polygons for characterizing the shape of a set of points in the plane

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3224-3236

  Duckham, Matt ^a   Kulik, Lars ^a   Worboys, Mike ^b   Galton, Antony ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alpha shape; Cartography; Convex hull; GIS; Shape analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; PAPER; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SET THEORY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

(001) PARAMETER; CHANGING PARAMETER; CONVEX HULLS; DELAUNAY TRIANGULATION (DT); DESIRABLE PROPERTIES; EFFICIENT ALGORITHMS; ELSEVIER (CO); EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; PARAMETER VALUES; SIMPLE POLYGON; WIDE-RANGE;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 45549086548     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2008.03.023     Document Type: Article

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