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- From: iskender@csl.sri.com (Iskender Agi)
- Newsgroups: sci.image.processing
- Subject: Re: Help Wanted: Contour Tracing
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 21:16:47 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Lab, SRI International
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- 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.
- |> - thanks!
- |> - scot shinderman (scotj@aip.org)
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- Here are some more references:
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- %A I. Sobel
- %T Neighborhood Coding of Binary Images for Fast Contour Following and General Binary Array Processing
- %J Computer Graphics and Image Processing
- %V 8
- %I Academic Press, Inc.
- %C New York
- %D 1978
- %P 127-135
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- %A T. H. Morrin
- %T Chain-Link Compression of Arbitrary Black-White Images
- %J Computer Graphics and Image Processing
- %V 5
- %I Academic Press, Inc.
- %C New York
- %D 1976
- %P 172-189
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- %A P. E. Danielsson
- %T Encoding of Binary Images by Raster-Chain-Coding of Cracks
- %J IEEE Proc. Int'l Conf. on Pattern Recognition and Image Processing
- %D 1982
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- %A C. Ronse
- %A P. A. Devijer
- %T Connected Components in Binary Images: the Detection Problem
- %I Research Studies Press
- %C Letchworth, England
- %D 1984
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- %A D. W. Paglieroni
- %A A. K. Jain
- %T Contour Control Point Algorithms for Shape Measurement and Inspection
- %J SPIE Conference on Advances in Intelligent Robotics Systems
- %C Cambridge
- %D October 1986
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