Title
Image retrieval using canonical cyclic string representation of polygons
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
12-1-2006
Abstract
In image retrieval applications one of the boundary-dependent approaches is matching contours with their polygonal representation. We introduce (1) a new polygonal shape representation, (2) an efficient algorithm to compute a unique representation of a polygon to handle orientation and (3) a matching method that is invariant to rigid and affine transformation. In the method, polygons are represented by a sequence of distance vectors ordered in a predefined cyclic way. Each vector is composed of two primitives which are radial distance from the centroid to a vertex and the following edge distance in a specified direction. Matching of polygons is achieved by bitwise comparison of their string code. The algorithm has a computational complexity of O(n log n), hence it has advantage for practical use. ©2006 IEEE.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
First Page
1493
Last Page
1496
Recommended Citation
Soysal, Ö., Gunturk, B., & Matthews, K. (2006). Image retrieval using canonical cyclic string representation of polygons. Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP, 1493-1496. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.2006.312565