Title :
A weighted Mahalanobis distance Hough transform and its application for the detection of circular segments
Author :
Xu, Chengping ; Velastin, Sergio A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., King´´s Coll., London, UK
Abstract :
A weighted Mahalanobis distance transform with extended Kalman filter refinement is proposed. It is shown to detect feature points more flexibly in a predefined range around the contour, using low-resolution accumulating arrays, and iterations in incremental jumps
Keywords :
Hough transforms; Kalman filters; computational complexity; edge detection; feature extraction; iterative methods; Hough transform; detection of circular segments; extended Kalman filter refinement; iterations; low-resolution accumulating arrays; weighted Mahalanobis distance transform;
Conference_Titel :
Hough Transforms, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
