A similarity-based approach for shape classification using Asian skeletons

2010-10-01
Erdem, Aykut
Tarı, Zehra Sibel
Shape skeletons are commonly used in generic shape recognition as they capture part hierarchy, providing a structural representation of shapes. However, their potential for shape classification has not been investigated much. In this study, we present a similarity-based approach for classifying 2D shapes based on their Asian skeletons (Asian and Tan, 2005; Aslan et al., 2008). The coarse structure of this skeleton representation allows us to represent each shape category in the form of a reduced set of prototypical trees, offering an alternative solution to the problem of selecting the best representative examples. The ensemble of these category prototypes is then used to form a similarity-based representation space in which the similarities between a given shape and the prototypes are computed using a tree edit distance algorithm, and support vector machine (SVM) classifiers are used to predict the category membership of the shape based on computed similarities.
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Citation Formats
A. Erdem and Z. S. Tarı, “A similarity-based approach for shape classification using Asian skeletons,” PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS, pp. 2024–2032, 2010, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/57970.