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1999 Technical Reports

Retrieval of Deformed and Occluded Shapes using Dynamic Programming

Zusheng Rao, Euripides Petrakis and Evangelos Milios

Technical Report CS-1999-06

York University

December 3, 1999

Abstract

We propose an approach for matching deformed shapes using dynamic programming. Our algorithms handle noise and shape distortions by allowing matching of merged sequences of consecutive small segments in a shape, with larger segments of another shape. Our proposed algorithms handle occlusion while being invariant to translation, scale and orientation transformations of shapes. We illustrate the effectiveness of our algorithms in retrieval of shapes on two different two-dimensional datasets, one of static hand gesture shapes and another of marine life shapes. Our evaluations are based on human relevance judgements and the results are a good support to our claims of accuracy.

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