Textual description of shapes

  • Authors:
  • Slimane Larabi

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, USTHB University, BP 32 EL ALIA, Algiers 16000, Algeria

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We propose in this paper a method for textual description of shape. In the first, we propose a part-based method for the decomposition of outline shape into parts and separating lines. These elements are described geometrically and written with a structured text. In the next we propose the representation of shape by a tree structure where nodes are the internal regions, and arcs correspond to the inclusion relation between these regions. The tree structure is translated to a structured text where is associated for each node a set of attributes such as the description of the outline region, its color and its position. A set of applications of this descriptor are proposed. We show how to decode and visualize the shape from its descriptor and how to retrieve a shape query using shapes database. To do this, a shape similarity is defined and extracted directly from the descriptor. Experiments conducted over real images of various silhouettes and shapes are presented and discussed.