Reversible Straight Line Edge Reconstruction
S.C. Hsu and I.H.H. Lee creature@acm.org, Computer Science Department The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Creature House, Ltd. Hong Kong. E-mail address: schsu@acm.org
Introduction
Jagged edges, appearing in digitized images due to aliasing, are often magnified when images are being manipulated (e.g., enlarged or rotated). To eliminate this nuisance, many techniques have been developed to reconstruct analytical representations of jagged edges (Chryssafis 1986), also described in other gems and/or cited below. Edge reconstruction techniques are also employed in commercial graphics packages to extract outlines from scanned artwork. This “vectorization” is an essential step when subsequent ...
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