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The Organization of Curve Detection: Coarse Tangent Fields and Fine Spline Coverings

Steven W. Zucker, Chantal David, Allan Dobbins, Lee Iverson
ICCV 1988 pp. 568-577
doi:10.1109/CCV.1988.590037 /iccv/1988/zucker1988iccv-organization/

Abstract

We propose a new paradigm for curve detection in which an autonomous and atomic description is computed between measurements on the image and global curves. The description takes the form of a discrete tangent field, i.e.. an estimated representation of quantized tangents and curvatures at each possible trace point. We then present a new algorithm for inferring global curves through this tangent field. by inferring a covering of the global curve. The elements of the covering are short splines, each of which moves according to a potential distribution computed from the tangent field. Both stages of the algorithm are parallel and both bear some analogy to biological mechanisms for curve detection

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Zucker et al. "The Organization of Curve Detection: Coarse Tangent Fields and Fine Spline Coverings." IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 1988. doi:10.1109/CCV.1988.590037

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[Zucker et al. "The Organization of Curve Detection: Coarse Tangent Fields and Fine Spline Coverings." IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 1988.](https://mlanthology.org/iccv/1988/zucker1988iccv-organization/) doi:10.1109/CCV.1988.590037

BibTeX

@inproceedings{zucker1988iccv-organization,
  title     = {{The Organization of Curve Detection: Coarse Tangent Fields and Fine Spline Coverings}},
  author    = {Zucker, Steven W. and David, Chantal and Dobbins, Allan and Iverson, Lee},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision},
  year      = {1988},
  pages     = {568-577},
  doi       = {10.1109/CCV.1988.590037},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/iccv/1988/zucker1988iccv-organization/}
}