Improving fitting quality of polygonal approximation by using the dynamic programming technique

  • Authors:
  • Ji-Hwei Horng

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Management, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kinmen Campus, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition Letters
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The dynamic programming technique is applied to improve the fitting quality of polygonal approximation. The dominant points of a digital curve are detected by applying a scale-based approach. Then, a polygonal approximation of the digital curve can be obtained by connecting its dominant points. The fitting quality of the polygonal approximation is improved by using a novel dynamic programming algorithm. The combination of the dominant point detection and the dynamic programming can produce a description that has high geometric importance and good fitting quality. Experimental results are provided and compared with several existing methods to show the excellence of the proposed method.