Noise-resistant affine skeletons of planar curves

Santiago Betelu, Guillermo Sapiro, Allen Tannenbaum, Peter J. Giblin

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Abstract

A new definition of affine invariant skeletons for shape re- presentation is introduced. A point belongs to the affine skeleton if and only if it is equidistant from at least two points of the curve, with the distance being a minima and given by the areas between the curve and its corresponding chords. The skeleton is robust, eliminating the need for curve denoising. Previous approaches have used either the Euclidean or affine distances, thereby resulting in a much less robust computation. We propose a simple method to compute the skeleton and give examples with real images, and show that the proposed definition works also for noisy data. We also demonstrate how to use this method to detect affine skew symmetry.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationComputer Vision - ECCV 2000 - 6th European Conference on Computer Vision, Proceedings
EditorsDavid Vernon
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages742-754
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)3540676856
DOIs
StatePublished - 2000
Externally publishedYes
Event6th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2000 - Dublin, Ireland
Duration: Jun 26 2000Jul 1 2000

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume1842
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference6th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2000
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityDublin
Period6/26/007/1/00

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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