Hierarchical Contour Coding Simplifies Real Time Pattern Recognition

Reiner A. Schmid

doi:10.1117/12.976246

23 March 1986 Hierarchical Contour Coding Simplifies Real Time Pattern Recognition

Reiner A. Schmid

Proceedings Volume 0698, Real-Time Signal Processing IX; (1986) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.976246
Event: 30th Annual Technical Symposium, 1986, San Diego, United States

Abstract

Structures defined by quantities of primitives based on edges are beside textures very essential features for understanding the visual world. A complete set of filters is introduced forming edges or lines of several classes but also crossings of lines or areas characterized by different boarders. It can be shown that it is possible to built such arrangements without restrictions to the size of array they overlapp, useing a hierarchical linking procedure. The inherent problem in processing sequenzes of growing length, combinatorical explosion, is here avoided by the proposed hierarchical system which generalizes the continuity of quantities of primitives by these primitives itself. A second hierarchy, providing building blocks for primitives of 2n-fold size, makes informations from different levels of both hierarchies comparable. This allows to predicate the continuity and smoothness of a picture describing element even if the connectivity is locally destroyed.

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Reiner A. Schmid "Hierarchical Contour Coding Simplifies Real Time Pattern Recognition", Proc. SPIE 0698, Real-Time Signal Processing IX, (23 March 1986); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.976246

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