The shapes of naturally occurring objects characteristically involve spatial events occurring at many scales. This paper offers a symbolic approach to constructing a primitive shape description across scales for 2D binary (silhouette) shape images: grouping operations are performed over collections of tokens residing on a Scale-Space Blackboard. Two types of grouping operations are identified that, respectively: (1) aggregate edge primitives at one scale into edge primitives at a coarser scale and (2) group edge primitives into partial-region assertions, including curved- contours, primitive-corners, and bars. This approach avoids several drawbacks of numerical smoothing methods.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/6046 |
Date | 01 April 1988 |
Creators | Saund, Eric |
Source Sets | M.I.T. Theses and Dissertation |
Language | en_US |
Detected Language | English |
Format | 59 p., 6443636 bytes, 2538644 bytes, application/postscript, application/pdf |
Relation | AIM-1028 |
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