A fuzzy identification method of contours based on chain-code features

Abstract

The contour analysis and identification are the important aspects in visual surveillance research. The paper proposes a fuzzy identification method of contours. First, according to the description of a contour based on the chain-code method, the proposed method utilizes the statistical features of contours including the chain-code entropy and chain-code space distribution entropies, from which the feature vector of a contour is composed. Then, the method generates the contour pattern from some contour samples and uses the approaching principle to identify a contour. Since our method integrates effectively multiple statistical feathers of its chain-code and employs a fuzzy pattern recognition technique, the experiments show quantitatively that it can achieve good results from various metrics.