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Detection and recognition of contour parts based on shape similarity

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Detection and recognition of contour parts based on shape similarity
Due to distortion, noise, segmentation errors, overlap, and occlusion of objects in digital images, it is usually impossible to extract complete object contours or to segment the whole objects. However, in many cases parts of contours can be correctly reconstructed either by performing edge grouping or as parts of boundaries of segmented regions. Therefore, recognition of objects based on their contour parts seems to be a promising as well as a necessary research direction. The main contribution of this paper is a system for detection and recognition of contour parts in digital images. Both detection and recognition are based on shape similarity of contour parts. For each contour part produced by contour grouping, we use shape similarity to retrieve the most similar contour parts in a database of known contour segments. A shape-based classification of the retrieved contour parts performs then a simultaneous detection and recognition. An important step in our approach is the constructi...
Xiang Bai, Xingwei Yang, Longin Jan Latecki
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Type Journal
Year 2008
Where PR
Authors Xiang Bai, Xingwei Yang, Longin Jan Latecki
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