A Two-Stage Framework for Polygon Retrieval

  • Authors:
  • Lun Hsing Tung;Irwin King

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China. lhtung@cse.cuhk.edu.hk;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China. king@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

  • Venue:
  • Multimedia Tools and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We propose a two-stage framework for polygonretrieval which incorporates both qualitative and quantitativemeasures of polygons in the first and second stage respectively. Thefirst stage uses Binary Shape Descriptor as a mean to prune thesearch space. The second stage uses any available polygon matchingand similarity measuring technique to compare model polygons with thetarget polygon. This two-stage framework uses a combination ofmodel-driven approach and data-driven approach. It is more efficientthan model-driven approach since it reduces the number of polygonsneeded to be compared. By using binary string as index, it alsoavoids the difficulty and inefficiency of manipulating complexmulti-dimensional index structure. This two-stage framework can beincorporated into image database systems for providing query-by-shapefacility. We also propose two similarity measures for polygons,namely Multi-Resolution Area Matching and Minimum Circular ErrorBound, which can be used in the second stage of the two-stageframework. We compare these two techniques with the HausdorffDistance method and the Normalized Coordinate System method. Ourexperiments show that Multi-Resolution Area Matching technique ismore efficient than the two methods and Minimum Circular Error Boundtechnique produces better polygon similarity measure than the twomethods.