Indexing and retrieval of free-form surfaces using self-organizing maps

This thesis describes the use of Self-Organizing Maps in combination with unique curvature based feature combinations and various training data sets as a clustering function to describe free-form surfaces. Our descriptor was successfully used as the basis of techniques that segmented, indexed and re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacLennan, Alexander D.
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2037