Non-Rigid Shape Comparison of Plane Curves in Images

  • Authors:
  • Hemant D. Tagare;Donal O'shea;David Groisser

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA;Department of Mathematics, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01075, USA;Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL 32611-8105, USA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

A mathematical theory for establishing correspondences between curves and for non-rigid shape comparison is developed in this paper. The proposed correspondences, called bimorphisms, are more general than those obtained from one-to-one functions. Their topology is investigated in detail.A new criterion for non-rigid shape comparison using bimorphisms is also proposed. The criterion avoids many of the mathematical problems of previous approaches by comparing shapes non-rigidly from the bimorphism.Geometric invariants are calculated for curves whose shapes can be exactly matched with a bimorphism. The invariants are related to the concave and convex segments of a curve and provide justification for parsing the curve into such segments.