Estimation of circle parameters by centroiding

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 363-371

  Chan, Y T ^a   Elhalwagy, Y Z ^a   Thomas, S M ^a  

^a ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

circle fitting; nonlinear estimation; threshold phenomenon

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CENTROIDING; CIRCLE FITTING; CIRCLE PARAMETER; CIRCULAR ARC; COMPUTER-AIDED MANUFACTURING; NOISY POINT; NON-LINEAR ESTIMATION; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; THRESHOLD PHENOMENA; THRESHOLD REGIONS;

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 9744245249     PISSN: 00223239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016087702231     Document Type: Article

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