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Isoperimetric Normalization of Planar Curves
August 1994 (vol. 16 no. 8)
pp. 769-777
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D. Sinclair, A. Blake, "Isoperimetric Normalization of Planar Curves," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 16, no. 8, pp. 769-777, August, 1994.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/34.308471,
author = {D. Sinclair and A. Blake},
title = {Isoperimetric Normalization of Planar Curves},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
volume = {16},
number = {8},
issn = {0162-8828},
year = {1994},
pages = {769-777},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/34.308471},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
TI - Isoperimetric Normalization of Planar Curves
IS - 8
SN - 0162-8828
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EPD - 769-777
A1 - D. Sinclair,
A1 - A. Blake,
PY - 1994
KW - edge detection; image processing; computational geometry; closed planar curves; canonical form; isoperimetric normalization; projective group PGL(2); piecewise smooth closed curve; invariant shape descriptor; object recognition
VL - 16
JA - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
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This paper presents an algorithm for transforming closed planar curves into a canonical form, independent of the viewpoint from which the original image of the contour was taken. The transformation that takes the contour to its canonical form is a member of the projective group PGL(2), chosen because PGL(2) contains all possible transformations of a plane curve under central projection onto another plane. The scheme relies on solving computationally an "isoperimetric" problem in which a transformation is sought which maximises the area of a curve given unit perimeter. In the case that the transformation is restricted to the affine subgroup there is a unique extremising transformation for any piecewise smooth closed curve. Uniqueness holds, almost always, even for curves that are not closed. In the full projective case, isoperimetric normalization is well-defined only for closed curves. We have found computational counterexamples for which there is more than one extremal transformation. Numerical algorithms are described and demonstrated both for the affine and the projective cases. Once a canonical curve is obtained, its isoperimetric area can be regarded as an invariant descriptor of shape.

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Index Terms:
edge detection; image processing; computational geometry; closed planar curves; canonical form; isoperimetric normalization; projective group PGL(2); piecewise smooth closed curve; invariant shape descriptor; object recognition
Citation:
D. Sinclair, A. Blake, "Isoperimetric Normalization of Planar Curves," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 16, no. 8, pp. 769-777, Aug. 1994, doi:10.1109/34.308471
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