Shape description via the use of critical points

Fourier Descriptors for Plane Closed Curves

C. T. Zahn, Ralph Roskies · IEEE Transactions on Computers · 1972 · 1.9K citations

Integral Geometry, Geometric Modeling, Closed Curves +12

A transformation for extracting new descriptors of shape

H.E. Blum · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1967 · 1.7K citations

Geometric Modeling, New Descriptors, Machine Vision +11

On the Encoding of Arbitrary Geometric Configurations

Herbert Freeman · IEEE Transactions on Electronic Computers · 1961 · 1.7K citations

Engineering, Geometry, Curve Modeling +18

Models for the perception of speech and visual form

Robert S. Brubaker · Journal of Communication Disorders · 1968 · 1.3K citations

Visual Language, Neurolinguistics, Visual Form +6

Shape Discrimination Using Fourier Descriptors

E. Persoon, King‐Sun Fu · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics · 1977 · 1.1K citations

Engineering, Feature Detection, Statistical Shape Analysis +16