• DocumentCode
    1116118
  • Title

    Segmentation of Plane Curves

  • Author

    Pavlidis, Theodosios ; Horowitz, Steven L.

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Laboratory, Princeton University
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    1974
  • Firstpage
    860
  • Lastpage
    870
  • Abstract
    Piecewise approximation is described as a way of feature extraction, data compaction, and noise filtering of boundaries of regions of pictures and waveforms. A new fast algorithm is proposed which allows for a variable number of segments. After an arbitrary initial choice, segments are split or merged in order to drive the error norm under a prespecified bound. Results of computer experiments with cell outlines and electrocardiograms are reported.
  • Keywords
    Boundary segmentation, data compaction, feature extracton, pattern recognition, piecewise functional approximation, polygonal contours, waveform segmentation.; Compaction; Computer errors; Data mining; Feature extraction; Filtering; Image segmentation; Pattern recognition; Piecewise linear approximation; Polynomials; Spline; Boundary segmentation, data compaction, feature extracton, pattern recognition, piecewise functional approximation, polygonal contours, waveform segmentation.;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computers, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9340
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/T-C.1974.224041
  • Filename
    1672634
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1116118