Identifying elephant photos by multi-curve matching

A Computational Approach to Edge Detection

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Snakes: Active contour models

Michael Kass, Andrew Witkin, Demetri Terzopoulos · International Journal of Computer Vision · 1988 · 17K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computational Geometry +10

Comparing images using the Hausdorff distance

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Generalizing the Hough transform to detect arbitrary shapes

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Recognizing solid objects by alignment with an image

Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Shimon Ullman · International Journal of Computer Vision · 1990 · 531 citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Vision +10