{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"An Extremum Principle for Shape From Contour","authors":[{"name":"Michael Brady","slug":"michael-brady","given":"Michael","family":"Brady","affiliation":""},{"name":"Alan L. Yuille","slug":"alan-l-yuille","given":"Alan L.","family":"Yuille","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"An rx tmnum principle is de1 • elup ed that determines thr ee -dimensional surface ori entation from a /ll'u -Jimcmio nal cuntour. The principle maximizes the ratio of th e area to th e square of th e perimeter, a measure of th e compactness or S)' 111m c t1y of the thre e-dimensional swface. The princip le inlelprets re g ular figures correctly, it in terprets skcll' symmetrics as ur iellled real syn11nNrics. and it is approximated by th e maximum likdihoud method on irregular figures.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/227","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/0227.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/227.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/bibtex/227","volume":{"slug":"1983","title":"Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1983","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/","year":1983,"location":"Karlsruhe, West Germany","dates":"","editors":"Alan Bundy","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Vision","track":"Vision","number":227,"pages":{"first":969,"last":971},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}