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We propose a new fast and reliable algorithm of parametric curves detection on images. In our approach as well as in many other approaches based on the Hough transform, we analyze the set of points obtained by an edge detector. Edge points are collected into chains of connected pixels, and then they are analyzed as a whole and piecemeal. At first we use randomized methods to reject unsuitable models. It gives us a high performance. Model parameters of fragments remained after randomized methods are estimated by the least squares method and the reliability of the hypothesis is estimated by the chi-square criterion. Then if the chi square criterion shows higher reliability for the merged similar models, we merge the obtained models.
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Alexey E. Levashov. Born in 1989. Student at the chair of Mathematical Physics, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University, Russia.
Areas of interest: mathematical methods of image processing, computer vision, primary information feature detection, parametrical curves detection, Hough transform.
Dmitry V. Yurin. Born in 1965. PhD, senior researcher at the laboratory of Mathematical Methods of Image Processing, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University, Russia.
Areas of interest: mathematical methods of image processing, computer vision, primary information feature detection, image filtering, 3D recovery, image segmentation, image registration and mosaicing, and modern programming techniques.
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Levashov, A.E., Yurin, D.V. Fast parametric curves detection based on statistical hypotheses estimation. Pattern Recognit. Image Anal. 23, 445–454 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S105466181304010X
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