Morphological shape representation

摘要

A new approach for shape representation is described, which provides a general scheme for object description and unifies some of the existing representation techniques. The proposed method has the advantage that it is based on the use of simple geometric objects which are intuitively used by humans in their perception of shapes. Furthermore, its unifying framework can be used both in computer graphics and computer vision, thus providing a tool to close the existing gap between object modeling and object recognition in certain applications.