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Combinatorial Shape Decomposition

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We formulate decomposition of two-dimensional shapes as a combinatorial optimization problem and present a dynamic programming algorithm that solves it.

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George Bebis Richard Boyle Bahram Parvin Darko Koracin Nikos Paragios Syeda-Mahmood Tanveer Tao Ju Zicheng Liu Sabine Coquillart Carolina Cruz-Neira Torsten Müller Tom Malzbender

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Juengling, R., Mitchell, M. (2007). Combinatorial Shape Decomposition. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4842. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76856-2_18

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