The reconstruction of noisy digital shapes is a complex question and a lot of contributions have been proposed to address this problem, including blurred segment decomposition or adaptive tangential covering for instance. In this article, we propose a novel approach combining multi-scale and irregular isothetic representations of the input contour, as an extension of a previous work [Vacavant et al., A Combined Multi-Scale/Irregular Algorithm for the Vectorization of Noisy Digital Contours, CVIU 2013]. Our new algorithm improves the representation of the contour by 1-D intervals, and achieves afterwards the decomposition of the contour into maximal arcs or segments. Our experiments with synthetic and real images show that our contribution can be employed as a relevant option for noisy shape reconstruction.
An algorithm to automatically detect and measure knots in CT images of softwood beams was developed. The algorithm is based on the use of 3D connex components and a 3D distance transform constituting a newa p p r o a c h for knot diameter measurements. The present work was undertaken with the objective to automatically and non-destructively extract the distributions of knot characteristics within trees. These data are valuable for further studies related to tree development and tree architecture, and could even contribute to satisfying the current demand for automatic species identification on the basis of CT images. AreviewoftheliteratureaboutautomaticknotdetectioninX-ray CT images is provided. Relatively few references give quantitativelya c c u r a t er e s u l t so f knot measurements (i.e., not only knot localisation but knots i z ea n di n c l ination as well).
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