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Shape context

Shape context is a feature descriptor used in object recognition. Serge Belongie and Jitendra Malik proposed the term in their paper "Matching with Shape Contexts" in 2000.

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Use in shape matching

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Shape context

Nodes31
Edges30
Triples38
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.064516
Components1

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Shape context

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related to Use in shape matching · 9
Shape context → Calculate, Compute, Details, Implementation, Match, Randomly, Then, To, Use
related to 3D object recognition · 6
Shape context → COIL-20, Columbia Object Image Library, Each, In, NN, The
related to External links · 6
Shape context → Caltech101 Database Archived, COIL-20, Matching, Object Image Library, Shape ContextsMNIST, Wayback Machine
related to Step 3: Computing the cost matrix · 6
Shape context → As, Consider, For, In, K-bin, The
related to Step 6: Computing the shape distance · 3
Shape context → Now, Shape, This
related to Theory · 3
Shape context → For, So, The
is a · 2
Shape context → feature descriptor used in object recognition, rich and discriminative descriptor can be seen in the figure below
related to Trademark retrieval · 2
Shape context → No, Shape

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shape points context matching point displaystyle two contexts cost shapes transformation distance database used object one tps obtained set authors

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Shape contextis afeature descriptor used in object recognition0.90text
Shape contextis arich and discriminative descriptor can be seen in the figure below0.90text
maxima of curvature or inflection pointsinstance ofNote that these points need not and in general do not correspond to key-points0.80text
Shape contextrelated to 3D object recognitionThe0.60section
Shape contextrelated to 3D object recognitionColumbia Object Image Library0.60section
Shape contextrelated to 3D object recognitionCOIL-200.60section
Shape contextrelated to 3D object recognitionEach0.60section
Shape contextrelated to 3D object recognitionIn0.60section
Shape contextrelated to 3D object recognitionNN0.60section
Shape contextrelated to External linksMatching0.60section
Shape contextrelated to External linksShape ContextsMNIST0.60section
Shape contextrelated to External linksObject Image Library0.60section

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