Describing and matching 2d shapes by their points of mutual symmetry

  • Authors:
  • Arjan Kuijper;Ole Fogh Olsen

  • Affiliations:
  • RICAM, Linz, Austria;IT-University of Copenhagen, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • ECCV'06 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part III
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A novel shape descriptor is introduced. It groups pairs of points that share a geometrical property that is based on their mutual symmetry. The descriptor is visualized as a diagonally symmetric diagram with binary valued regions. This diagram is a fingerprint of global symmetry between pairs of points along the shape. The descriptive power of the method is tested on a well-known shape data base containing several classes of shapes and partially occluded shapes. First tests with simple, elementary matching algorithms show good results.