Detecting ellipses of limited eccentricity in images with high noise levels

✍ Scribed by K.-U Kasemir; K Betzler

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 753 KB
• Volume: 21
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0262-8856
• DOI: 10.1016/s0262-8856(02)00155-5

✦ Synopsis

We present a newly developed algorithm for the detection of elliptical shapes in images in the presence of high noise levels. The algorithm combines a modified version of the Hough transform with a genetic algorithm, namely Differential Evolution. Suggestions for a parallel implementation are given. In our implementation the algorithm is restricted due to the technical problem to be solved, yet it can be easily generalized to arbitrary ellipse detection.