Minimum description length approximation of digital curves

  • Authors:
  • Alexander Kolesnikov

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Statistics, University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland

  • Venue:
  • ICIP'09 Proceedings of the 16th IEEE international conference on Image processing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper we have examined a problem of piecewise approximation of digital curves with a set of models. Each segment of the input curve was approximated by a function selected from a given set of functions (line segments, circular arcs, polynomials, splines, etc). Following the Minimum Description Length principle, we have introduced a fast near-optimal algorithm for multi-model error-bounded approximation of digital curves. The algorithm was tested on a large-sized test data se and demonstrated a sufficient tradeoff between time performance and efficiency of solutions. The processing time for the large-size test data is less than 1s.