Least-squares orthogonal distances fitting of circle, sphere, ellipse, hyperbola, and parabola

LIII. <i>On lines and planes of closest fit to systems of points in space</i>

Karl Pearson · The London Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science · 1901 · 11.7K citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Geometry +5

Use of the Hough transformation to detect lines and curves in pictures

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Computing, Computer Science, Computer Vision +12

Generalizing the Hough transform to detect arbitrary shapes

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Computing, Computer Science, Mathematics +13

Singular value decomposition and least squares solutions

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Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Differential Equations +10

Direct least square fitting of ellipses

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Computing, Computer Science, Computational Electromagnetics +9