An elastic partial shape matching technique

  • Authors:
  • Longin Jan Latecki;Vasileios Megalooikonomou;Qiang Wang;Deguang Yu

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer and Information Sciences Department, Temple University, 1805 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA;Computer and Information Sciences Department, Temple University, 1805 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA;Computer and Information Sciences Department, Temple University, 1805 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA;Computer and Information Sciences Department, Temple University, 1805 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We consider the problem of partial shape matching. We propose to transform shapes into sequences and utilize an algorithm that determines a subsequence of a target sequence that best matches a query. In the proposed algorithm we map the problem of the best matching subsequence to the problem of a cheapest path in a directed acyclic graph (DAG). The approach allows us to compute the optimal scale and translation of sequence values, which is a nontrivial problem in the case of subsequence matching. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm outperforms the commonly used techniques in retrieval accuracy.