Dissimilarity between two skeletal trees in a context

  • Authors:
  • E. Baseski;A. Erdem;S. Tari

  • Affiliations:
  • The Maersk MC-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark;Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, TR-06531 Ankara, Turkey;Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, TR-06531 Ankara, Turkey

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Skeletal trees are commonly used in order to express geometric properties of the shape. Accordingly, tree-edit distance is used to compute a dissimilarity between two given shapes. We present a new tree-edit based shape matching method which uses a recent coarse skeleton representation. The coarse skeleton representation allows us to represent both shapes and shape categories in the form of depth-1 trees. Consequently, we can easily integrate the influence of the categories into shape dissimilarity measurements. The new dissimilarity measure gives a better within group versus between group separation, and it mimics the asymmetric nature of human similarity judgements.