Sketch creation utilizing shape matching techniques

  • Authors:
  • I. Andreou;N. M. Sgouros

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Technol. Educ. & Digital Syst., Piraeus, Karoli & Dimitriou Univ., Piraeus, Greece;Dept. of Technol. Educ. & Digital Syst., Piraeus, Karoli & Dimitriou Univ., Piraeus, Greece

  • Venue:
  • ICME '03 Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper describes a sketch creation method that can act as a front-end to a visual image retrieval system by allowing the user to draw the types of images s/he is interested in. In addition, the method supports sketch generation processes, in general, by allowing the designer to automatically replace sketch components in the current sketch with similar components from a shape database. The method consists of a shape matching step in which the contents of the user sketch are compared with the contents of a shape database and of a placement step in which similar shapes from the database are properly aligned and replace automatically the contents of the user sketch. Shape matching uses a mixture of local and global shape features such as the turning function difference and the degree of openness of a curve.