Shape Segmentation Using Relaxation. 2

Abstract

The work begun in (1) on the application of relaxation to ambiguous shape segmentation is extended to include curve linking and gap filling. A chain coded input image is broken into segments based on a measure of local curvature. Gap completions linking pairs of segments are then proposed and represented in a graph structure. A second graph, whose nodes consist of paths in the above graph, is constructed, and the nodes of the second graph are probabilistically classified as various object parts. Relaxation is then applied to increase the probability of mutually supporting classifications, and decrease the probability of unsupported decisions. A modified relaxation process using information about the size, spatial position, and orientation of the object parts yielded a high degree of disambiguation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA084292

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  • Wallace S. Rutkowski

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  • University of Maryland

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  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Computer Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Computing
  • Boundaries
  • Classification
  • Computational Processes
  • Computer Vision
  • Curvature
  • Image Processing
  • Iterations
  • Measurement
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Probability
  • Recognition
  • Sequences
  • Shape

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  • Computer Vision.
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