Title :
Fundamental limitations on projective invariants of planar curves
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math., Lund Univ., Sweden
fDate :
1/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
In this paper, some fundamental limitations of projective invariants of non-algebraic planar curves are discussed. It is shown that all curves within a large class can be mapped arbitrarily close to a circle by projective transformations. It is also shown that arbitrarily close to each of a finite number of closed planar curves there is one member of a set of projectively equivalent curves. Thus a continuous projective invariant on closed curves is constant. This also limits the possibility of finding so called projective normalisation schemes for closed planar curves
Keywords :
geometry; image processing; object recognition; closed planar curves; nonalgebraic planar curves; projective invariants; projective normalisation schemes; projective transformations; projectively equivalent curves; Calculus; Cameras; Computer errors; Computer vision; Image processing; Image recognition; Inverse problems; Mathematics; Predictive models; Shape;
Journal_Title :
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on