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- From: teo@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Patrick ChengSan Teo)
- Subject: Re: Help Wanted: Contour Tracing
- In-Reply-To: scotj@pinet.aip.org's message of Thu, 21 Jan 93 19:26:19 GMT
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 20:35:14
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- In article <1993Jan21.192619.10241@pinet.aip.org> scotj@pinet.aip.org (scot_shinderman) writes:
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- > While reading the standard image processing books I have noticed one
- > algorithm that seems to be glossed over: contour tracing. In the
- > pictures that I am scanning, a filter is run across the pixels and a
- > threshold is applied to produce either white or black pixels for the
- > grey-scale. At this point there is usually a rather disconnected set of
- > dots due to noise in the picture but also some strong edges from the
- > filter. What is the "pratical" method of moveing along the detected
- > pixels to find lines (or curves). If I try to step from one pixel to
- > the next by looking in a neighborhood, then the path almost always gets
- > caught up in the noise off to one side or another. Is there a way to
- > "nudge" the search in a particular direction based on previous motions.
- > Any suggestions (or sample code!) would be greatly appreciated.
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- Just off the top of my head. Have you considered trying to use some
- iterative deepening backtracking procedure (algorithms like A*)
- heuristically guided by some bayesian probability of the type of curve
- which you are expecting to see?
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