Shape analysis using contour-based and region-based approaches

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The user of an image database often wishes to retrieve all images similar to the one (s)he already has. In this thesis, shape analysis methods for retrieving shape are investigated. Shape analysis methods can be classified in two groups as contour-based and region-based according to the shape information used. In such a classification, curvature scale space (CSS) representation and angular radial transform (ART) are promising methods for shape similarity retrieval respectively. The CSS representation operates by decomposing the shape contour into convex and concave sections. CSS descriptor is extracted by using the curvature zero-crossings behaviour of the shape boundary while smoothing the boundary with Gaussian filter. The ART descriptor decomposes the shape region into a number of orthogonal 2-D basis functions defined on a unit disk. ART descriptor is extracted using the magnitudes of ART coefficients. These methods are implemented for similarity comparison of binary images and the retrieval performances of descriptors for changing number of sampling points of boundary and order of ART coefficients are investigated. The experiments are done using 1000 images from MPEG7 Core Experiments Shape-1. Results show that for different classes of shape, different descriptors are more successful. When the choice of approach depends on the properties of the query shape, similarity retrieval performance increases.
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/13639
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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G. Çiftçi, “Shape analysis using contour-based and region-based approaches,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2003.
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