• Introduction
• Strategy
• Relevance Measure
• Properties

Curve Evolution

Introduction

Our data is represented as a polygonal outline, extracted from a natural image. This means:

• The data is deformed by noise
• The contour contains detailed shape information, which should be reduced to simplify the recognition algorithm

The simple idea of the curve evolution is to reduce the set of vertices of the polygon to a subset of vertices containing important information about the original contour.

The figure on the right should give an idea what we are talking about.

If your browser supports JAVA-APPLETS, you can click here to watch the algorithm.

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