6Shape Analysis
Shapes play an important role in describing the objects in images. Shape analysis is an essential branch of image analysis. The analysis of a shape should be based on shape properties and various available techniques. On the one hand, a property can be described by several techniques/descriptors. On the other hand, a technique can describe several properties of a shape.
The sections of this chapter are arranged as follows:
Section 6.1 overviews first the description and definition of shape and then summarizes the main research works for shape.
Section 6.2 describes a classification scheme for the shape of a plane object. The concept and property of each class are further explained to provide an overall understanding of the shape ...
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