Title

Shape Matching And Modeling Using Skeletal Context

Keywords

Optimal matching; Saliency structure; Shape matching; Shape modeling; Shape skeleton

Abstract

Shape is a significant visual clue for human perception and shape models show considerable promise as a basis for extracting objects from images. This paper proposes a novel approach for shape matching and modeling using the symmetry characterization of shape interior and the spatial relationships of shape structures. Based on the representative skeletal features, we develop a mechanism to generate a coarse segment matching between different instances of an object. Additionally, the natural correspondence of skeletal branches to sequential segments along the shape curves is employed in the matching process to avoid false correspondences across different segments. Point matches within the corresponding segments are then obtained by solving a constrained assignment problem. The validation of the proposed approach is illustrated on various data sets in the presence of considerable deformation and occlusion and the results are compared with those of popular approaches. We also demonstrate the performance of our method on biological objects for shape modeling, showing better models than those obtained by the state-of-the-art shape modeling approaches. © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

1-1-2008

Publication Title

Pattern Recognition

Volume

41

Issue

5

Number of Pages

1756-1767

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2007.11.005

Socpus ID

38349088398 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/38349088398

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