An adaptive method for detecting dominant points

摘要

In this paper, we propose an adaptive method for the polygonal approximation of a digitized curve. Instead of setting a fixed length of support region in advance, the new method will compute the suitable length of support region for each point to find the best approximated curvature. The dominant points are identified as the points with local maximum curvatures. In addition, the break point detection is conducted to reduce the computations. The experimental results show that the proposed method can approximate the curves effectively.