Alignment-Based Recognition of Shape Outlines

  • Authors:
  • Thomas B. Sebastian;Philip N. Klein;Benjamin B. Kimia

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IWVF-4 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Visual Form
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We present a 2D shape recognition and classification method based on matching shape outlines. The correspondence between outlines (curves) is based on a notion of an alignment curve and on a measure of similarity between the intrinsic properties of the curve, namely, length and curvature, and is found by an efficient dynamic-programming method. The correspondence is used to find a similarity measure which is used in a recognition system. We explore the strengths and weaknesses of the outline-based representation by examining the effectiveness of the recognition system on a variety of examples.