• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.91-105
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• 2007

The Hough transform is a popular method for ellipse detection from image. But the method wastes time and memory space severely. And the existing methods for elliptical arc segmentation are very sensitive to noise or detect improper breakpoints. In this paper a fast method is proposed for the segmentation and detection of elliptical arcs from digital curve using its area. Experimental results show that the proposed method segments and detects elliptical arcs from noisy curves and the average of the distance errors between the fitted arc and given curve is within a threshold.