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In this paper we introduce a novel concept of shape evolution. It is perceptually motivated and takes the local shape symmetry into account. In particular, during the new shape evolution the shape parts in accordance with the human perception are removed step by step and the coarse parts remain geometrically unchanged during removing the fine parts. This shape-preserving property cannot be achieved by the popular Gaussian smoothing (evolution based on geometric heat flow) and related variants. Experimental results demonstrate the behavior and power of this new shape evolution scheme.
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Lewin, S., Jiang, X., Clausing, A. (2008). Perceptually Motivated Shape Evolution with Shape-Preserving Property. In: Ruiz-Shulcloper, J., Kropatsch, W.G. (eds) Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications. CIARP 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5197. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85920-8_81
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