
SVD AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, III
Algorithms, Architectures and Applications
M. Moonen and B. De Moor (Editors)
9 1995 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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FITTING OF CIRCLES AND ELLIPSES
LEAST SQUARES SOLUTION
W. GANDER, R. STREBEL
Institut fSr Wissenschaftliches Rechnen
EidgenSssische Technische Hochschule
CH-8092 Ziirich
Switzerland
gander@inf.ethz.ch, strebel@inf.ethz.ch
G.H. GOLUB
Computer Science Departement
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305, U.S.A.
golub @sccm. stanford, edu
ABSTRACT. Fitting ellipses to given points in the plane is a problem that arises in many
application areas, ...