An a contrario decision method for shape element recognition

  • Pablo MUSÉ*
  • , Frédéric SUR
  • , Frédéric CAO
  • , Yann GOUSSEAU
  • , Jean-Michel MOREL
  • *Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Journal PublicationsJournal Article (refereed)peer-review

Abstract

Shape recognition is the field of computer vision which addresses the problem of finding out whether a query shape lies or not in a shape database, up to a certain invariance. Most shape recognition methods simply sort shapes from the database along some (dis-)similarity measure to the query shape. Their main weakness is the decision stage, which should aim at giving a clear-cut answer to the question: "do these two shapes look alike?" In this article, the proposed solution consists in bounding the number of false correspondences of the query shape among the database shapes, ensuring that the obtained matches are not likely to occur "by chance". As an application, one can decide with a parameterless method whether any two digital images share some shapes or not. © 2006 Springer Science + Business Media, LLC.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)295-315
Number of pages21
JournalInternational Journal of Computer Vision
Volume69
Issue number3
Early online date1 Apr 2006
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2006
Externally publishedYes

Funding

This work was supported by the Office of Naval Research under grant N00014-97-1-0839, by the Centre National d’Études Spatiales, and by the Réseau National de Recherche en Télécommunications (projet ISII). Algorithms were developed within MegaWave 2 free software. We thank the anonymous reviewers for their fruitful comments.

Keywords

  • Background model
  • Level lines
  • Meaningful matches
  • Number of false alarms
  • Planar shape recognition

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