TY - JOUR AU - Fernandez-Garcia, N. L. AU - Del-Moral Martinez, L. AU - Carmona-Poyato, A. AU - Madrid-Cuevas, F. J. AU - Medina-Carnicer, R. PY - 2016 DO - 10.1016/j.jvcir.2015.12.013 SN - 1047-3203 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10668/18829 T2 - Journal of visual communication and image representation AB - The present paper proposes a new algorithm for automatic generation of polygonal approximations of 2D closed contours based on a new thresholding method. The new proposal computes the significance level of the contour points using a new symmetric... LA - en PB - Academic press inc elsevier science KW - Digital planar curves KW - Polygonal approximation KW - Dominant points KW - Significance of contour points KW - Thresholding techniques KW - Object recognition KW - Assessment of polygonal approximations KW - Automatic algorithm KW - Dominant point detection KW - Digital planar curves KW - Shape representation KW - Algorithm KW - Polygonization TI - A new thresholding approach for automatic generation of polygonal approximations TY - research article VL - 35 ER -