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A Two-Step Vertex Selection Method for Minimizing Polygonal Approximation Error  

윤병주 (경북대학교 정보통신학과)
이훈철 (LG전자 Digital TV 연구소 SAT Group)
고윤호 (Hynix 반도체 System IC SBU SP BU)
이시웅 (한밭대학교 정보통신컴퓨터학부)
김성대 (한국과학기술원 전자전산학과)
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Abstract
The current paper proposes a new vertex selection scheme for polygon-based contour coding. To efficiently characterize the shape of an object, we incorporate the curvature information in addition to the conventional maximum distance criterion in vertex selection process. The proposed method consists of "two-step procedure." At first, contour pixels of high curvature value are selected as key vortices based on the curvature scale space (CSS), thereby dividing an overall contour into several contour-segments. Each segment is considered as an open contour whose end points are two consecutive key vortices and is processed independently. In the second step, vertices for each contour segment are selected using progressive vertex selection (PVS) method in order to obtain minimum number of vertices under the given maximum distance criterion ( $D_{max}$$^{*}$). Furthermore, the obtained vortices are adjusted using the dynamic programming (DP) technique to optimal positions in the error area sense. Experimental results are presented to compare the approximation performances of the proposed and conventional methods.imation performances of the proposed and conventional methods.
Keywords
Object-oriented coding; MPEG-4; shape information coding; polygonal approximation : curvature scale space;
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