Digital straightness: a review

  • Authors:
  • Reinhard Klette;Azriel Rosenfeld

  • Affiliations:
  • CITR, University of Auckland, Tamaki Campus, Auckland 1005, New Zealand;Center for Automation Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MA

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics - The 2001 international workshop on combinatorial image analysis (IWCIA 2001)
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

A digital arc is called 'straight' if it is the digitization of a straight line segment. Since the concept of digital straightness was introduced in the mid-1970s, dozens of papers on the subject have appeared; many characterizations of digital straight lines have been formulated, and many algorithms for determining whether a digital arc is straight have been defined. This paper reviews the literature on digital straightness and discusses its relationship to other concepts of geometry, the theory of words, and number theory.