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Measuring shapes with desired convex polygons

Zunic, Jovisa and Rosin, Paul L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4965-3884 2020. Measuring shapes with desired convex polygons. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 42 (6) 10.1109/TPAMI.2019.2898830

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Abstract

In this paper we have developed a family of shape measures. All the measures from the family evaluate the degree to which a shape looks like a predefined convex polygon. A quite new approach in designing object shape based measures has been applied. In the most cases such measures were defined by exploiting some of shape properties. An illustrative example might be the shape circularity measure derived by exploiting the well-know result that the circle has the largest area among all the shapes with the same perimeter. In the approach applied here, no desired property is needed and no optimizing shape has to be found. We start from a desired/selected convex polygon, and develop the related shape measure. The measures obtained range over the interval (0,1] and pick the maximal possible value, equal to 1, if and only if the measured shape coincides with the selected convex polygon, used to develop the a particular measure. All the measures are invariant with respect to translations, rotations, and scaling transformations. The method used has an straightforward extension to a wider family of shape measures, dependent on a tuning parameter involved. Another extension leads to a family of the new shape convexity measures.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Computer Science & Informatics
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
ISSN: 0162-8828
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 6 June 2019
Date of Acceptance: 5 February 2019
Last Modified: 12 Nov 2023 20:00
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/123148

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