• DocumentCode
    1124089
  • Title

    Shape Discrimination Using Fourier Descriptors

  • Author

    Persoon, Eric ; Fu, King-Sun

  • Author_Institution
    School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, West Latayette, IN 47907; Philips Research Laboratory. Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1986
  • fDate
    5/1/1986 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    388
  • Lastpage
    397
  • Abstract
    Description or discrimination of boundary curves (shapes) is an important problem in picture processing and pattern recognition Fourier descriptors (FD´s) have interesting properties in this respect. First, a critical review is given of two kinds of FD´s. Some properties of the FD´s are given and a distance measure is proposed, in terms of FD´s, that measures the difference between two boundarv curves. It is shown how FD´s can be used for obtaining skeletons fobjects. Finally, experimental results are given in character recognition and machine parts recognition.
  • Keywords
    Clocks; Equations; Fourier series; Interpolation; Shape; Spirals;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0162-8828
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TPAMI.1986.4767799
  • Filename
    4767799