Filtering closed curves.

Autor: Horn BK; Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139., Weldon EJ
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence [IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell] 1986 May; Vol. 8 (5), pp. 665-8.
DOI: 10.1109/tpami.1986.4767839
Abstrakt: A closed curve in the plane can be described in several ways. We show that a simple representation in terms of radius of curvature versus normal direction has certain advantages. In particular, convolutional filtering of the extended circular image leads to a closed curve. Similar filtering operations applied to some other representations of the curve do not guarantee that the result corresponds to a closed curve. In one case, where a closed curve is produced, it is smaller than the original. A description of a curve can be based on a sequence of smoothed versions of the curve. This is one reason why smoothing of closed curves is of interest.
Databáze: MEDLINE