Hierarchical curve representation
| Title | Hierarchical curve representation |
| Publication Type | Conference Papers |
| Year of Publication | 1992 |
| Authors | Fermüller C, Kropatsch W |
| Conference Name | , 11th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1992. Vol.III. Conference C: Image, Speech and Signal Analysis, Proceedings |
| Date Published | 1992/09/30/Aug-3 |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| ISBN Number | 0-8186-2920-7 |
| Keywords | Automation, continuous curves, curvature, data mining, digital images, Educational institutions, Feature extraction, hierarchical curve representation, IMAGE PROCESSING, image recognition, image resolution, Image segmentation, multiresolution structure, Object recognition, planar curves, pyramid, Robustness, Sampling methods, Smoothing methods |
| Abstract | Presents a robust method for describing planar curves in multiple resolution using curvature information. The method is developed by taking into account the discrete nature of digital images as well as the discrete aspect of a multiresolution structure (pyramid). The authors deal with the robustness of the technique, which is due to the additional information that is extracted from observing the behavior of corners in the pyramid. Furthermore the resulting algorithm is conceptually simple and easily parallelizable. They develop theoretical results, analyzing the curvature of continuous curves in scale-space, which show the behavior of curvature extrema under varying scale. These results are used to eliminate any ambiguities that might arise from sampling problems due to the discreteness of the representation. Finally, experimental results demonstrate the potential of the method |
| DOI | 10.1109/ICPR.1992.201947 |