The Algorithm for Matching 2D Contours Based on V-System

Curve matching is one of key issues in computer vision, image analysis and pattern recognition. Based on discrete V-transform, the distance is calculated between curves using the descriptor of V-system to find the matching curves, and then the matching parameters are evaluated in this article. The new approach can find efficiently the rough location of a short extracted image curve in a long reference curve. Different from the existing approaches, it needn't to extract feature points. Extensive tests show that it is efficient.