Fitting multiple connected ellipses to an image silhouette hierarchically

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1673-1682

  Xu, Richard Yi Da ^a   Kemp, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Curve fitting; Image edge analysis; Image shape analysis

Indexed keywords

EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; GAUSSIAN DENSITY; IMAGE EDGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SHAPE ANALYSIS; INITIAL GUESS; LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT ALGORITHM; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; ONE STEP;

ALGORITHMS; CURVE FITTING; GEOMETRY;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 77953719011     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2010.2045071     Document Type: Article

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