A Hu moment invariant as a shape circularity measure

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-57

  Žunić, Joviša ^a   Hirota, Kaoru ^b   Rosin, Paul L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Circularity measure; Hu moment invariants; Image processing; Moments; Shape

Indexed keywords

AREA-BASED; CIRCULAR SHAPE; CIRCULARITY MEASURE; EXTRACTION PROCESS; GENERALISATION; HU MOMENT INVARIANTS; HU MOMENTS; MOMENTS; RELATIVE POSITIONS; SHAPE;

IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; METAL RECOVERY;

LEAD COMPOUNDS;

EID: 68949101443     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2009.06.017     Document Type: Article

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