The distance between shape centroids is less than a quarter of the shape perimeter

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2161-2169

  Žunić, Joviša ^a   Akta, Mehmet Ali ^a   Martinez Ortiz, Carlos ^a   Galton, Antony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Centredness measure; Centroid; Image processing; Shape; Shape descriptors; Shape invariant

Indexed keywords

CENTREDNESS MEASURE; CENTROID; SHAPE; SHAPE DESCRIPTORS; SHAPE INVARIANT;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 79957489474     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2011.03.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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