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Chapter 6, Shape representation and description

Chapter 6 Overview:

6.1 Region identification
6.2 Contour-based shape representation and description
Chain codes
Simple geometric shape representation
Fourier transforms of borders
Boundary description using segment sequences
B-spline representation
Other contour-based shape description approaches
Shape invariants
6.3 Region-based shape representation and description
Simple scalar region descriptors
Moments
Convex hull
Graph representation based on region skeleton
Region decomposition
Region neighborhood graphs
6.4 Shape classes

Last Modified: April 9, 1997