| Polygonal Approximation of Closed Curves across Multiple Views (2007) | |||||||||||||||
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| Polygon approximation is an important step in the recognition of planar shapes. Traditional polygonal approximation algorithms handle only images that are related by a similarity transformation. The transformation of a planar shape as the viewpoint changes with a perspective camera is a general projective one. In this paper, we present a novel method for polygonal approximation of closed curves that is invariant to projective transformation. The polygons generated by our algorithm from two images, related by a projective homography, are isomorphic. We also describe an application of this in the form of numeral recognition. We demonstrate the importance of this algorithm for real-life applications like number plate recognition, aircraft recognition and metric rectification. 1. | |||||||||||||||
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