Polygonal Approximation and Scale-Space Analysis of Closed Digital Curves

This book covers the most important topics in the area of pattern recognition, object recognition, computer vision, robot vision, medical computing, computational geometry, and bioinformatics systems. Readers will find a comprehensive treatment of polygonal approximation and its real life applications. The book not only explains the theoretical aspects but also presents applications with detailed design parameters. Polygonal approximation of digital curves has been cultivated by many researchers, but itsscale-space analysis has not been thoroughly discussed. Hence, a systematic development of polygonal approximation and scale-space analysis of digital curve is very essential for future work. Also there is no comprehensive book on polygonal approximationand scale-space analysis of digital curves. This book will be very useful from theoretical and practical point of view. The last part of the book handles a series of applications in the area of structural patter classification and object recognition -- P. [4] of cover.

Kumar S. Ray, PhD, is a professor in the Electronics and Communication Science Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. He has written a number of articles published in international journals and has presented at several professional meetings. His current research interests include artificial intelligence, computer vision, commonsense reasoning, soft computing, non-monotonic deductive database systems, and DNA computing.

Kishor Kumar Sadasivuni is doing doctoral research in polymer nanocomposites. His research is under a collaborative scheme between University of South Brittany (France) and Mahatma Gandhi University (India). He received his master’s degree from Andhra University, India. He has several years of experience in synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles as well as in manufacturing elastomer nanocomposites. His areas of interest include different types of nanoparticles and their modifications and interactions with both modified and unmodified rubbers. He is also a visiting student of LECAP Laboratory at the Universite de Rouen in France. He has presented papers in several international conferences.