Local Rotational Symmetries
Item
-
Title
-
en_US
Local Rotational Symmetries
-
Creator
-
en_US
Fleck, Margaret Morrison
-
Date
-
2004-10-20T20:03:57Z
-
Date Available
-
2004-10-20T20:03:57Z
-
Date Issued
-
en_US
1985-08-01
-
Identifier
-
en_US
AITR-852
-
Abstract
-
en_US
This thesis describes a new representation for two-dimensional round regions called Local Rotational Symmetries. Local Rotational Symmetries are intended as a companion to Brady's Smoothed Local Symmetry Representation for elongated shapes. An algorithm for computing Local Rotational Symmetry representations at multiple scales of resolution has been implemented and results of this implementation are presented. These results suggest that Local Rotational Symmetries provide a more robustly computable and perceptually accurate description of round regions than previous proposed representations. In the course of developing this representation, it has been necessary to modify the way both Smoothed Local Symmetries and Local Rotational Symmetries are computed. First, grey-scale image smoothing proves to be better than boundary smoothing for creating representations at multiple scales of resolution, because it is more robust and it allows qualitative changes in representations between scales. Secondly, it is proposed that shape representations at different scales of resolution be explicitly related, so that information can be passed between scales and computation at each scale can be kept local. Such a model for multi-scale computation is desirable both to allow efficient computation and to accurately model human perceptions.
-
Extent
-
en_US
156 p.
-
12727669 bytes
-
8847371 bytes
-
Format
-
application/postscript
-
application/pdf
-
Language
-
en_US
-
Relation
-
en_US
AITR-852