An iterative procedure for the polygonal approximation of plane curves

On the Encoding of Arbitrary Geometric Configurations

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

Engineering, Geometry, Curve Modeling +18

On the approximation of curves by line segments using dynamic programming

Richard Bellman · Communications of the ACM · 1961 · 441 citations · Full text

Geometric Modeling, Numerical Analysis, Mathematical Programming +14

Minimum-Perimeter Polygons of Digitized Silhouettes

Jack Sklansky, Robert L. Chazin, Bruce J. Hansen · IEEE Transactions on Computers · 1972 · 139 citations

Geometric Modeling, Minimum-perimeter Polygons, Machine Vision +14

A note on minimal length polygonal approximation to a digitized contour

Ugo Montanari · Communications of the ACM · 1970 · 136 citations · Full text

Numerical Analysis, Pade Approximant, Engineering +19

Recognition of convex blobs

Jack Sklansky · Pattern Recognition · 1970 · 118 citations

Machine Vision, Image Analysis, Feature Detection +8