Date of Award

Spring 1987

Document Type

Thesis - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

First Advisor

Doerr, Thomas

Second Advisor

Wu, Sherman

Third Advisor

Kim, Jaehyo

Abstract

A shape descriptor has been developed which can describe a planar shape independent of its translation, rotation, and scaling. The descriptor is obtained using polar quantization, is in the form of a matrix, takes into consideration the inner geometry of a shape, and is information preserving. The method used, however, utilizes only binary descriptions of the shape. This paper outlines the method, expands it to include gray scale descriptions, and analyzes the results of its implementation.

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