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- From: newberry@aquarius.as.arizona.edu (Mike Newberry)
- Newsgroups: sci.image.processing
- Subject: Re: Help Wanted: Contour Tracing
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.204552.18348@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 20:45:52 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.192619.10241@pinet.aip.org> <TEO.93Jan21203514@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <TEO.93Jan21203514@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> teo@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >In article <1993Jan21.192619.10241@pinet.aip.org> scotj@pinet.aip.org (scot_shinderman) writes:
- >
- >
- >> 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.
- >
- >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?
- >
- >-Patrick
- >
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- >Patrick Cheng-San Teo teo@cs.stanford.edu
- >Department of Computer Science
- >Stanford University Home Phone: (415) 424-0330
- >
- >"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
- >-- Albert Einstein
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- Do we really need these kinds of answers wasting net bandwidth?
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- Stick to the motto in your by-line and offer constructive advise, please.
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