lprc - Ellipse finder

NAME

ELF

SYNOPSIS

ELF CannyLists_file

SYSTEM SYNOPSIS

/user/eevssppg/eep1ph/bin/ELF /vol/vssp/packages/local/ELF/bin/ELF

AVAILABILITY

The software for this is on avaliable on request from eep1ph

DESCRIPTION

ELF is the first version of our Ellipses finder: ELF runs using two routines Canny2Eseg - Curve Segmenter Eseg2Ell - Ellipse finder

ELF segments the canny strings and produces the elliptical output. There are a number of parameters that can be set for each and a description of these is given when the programmes are run using no options.

EXAMPLES

See Below

SEE ALSO

Canny2Eseg,Eseg2Ell

BUGS

There may be Many!!!!!!!!. Please note some bugs exist, I hold no responsibility for any mistakes caused through the use of these programmes or as a consequence of using these programmes. I am interested in finding images that produce incorrect data or produce errors if you find any images that do please write to me so I can see them. If all the strings are short or small i.e. if the only ellipse is small and far away it may produce no ellipses, don't be surprised if this occurs. In later version I will tell you if no ellipses have been found.

USAGE

The programmes can all be found in my bin /user/eevssppg/eep1ph/bin to run ELF type.... file is the CannyLists of an image in gf format. ELF file The Canny_file can be created by canny -g file < Image_file > /dev/null The ELF programme will produce a number or files file.el.gf - Ellipse before and after merging file.seg.gf - Curved Segments ELF Auto run xgf to display the object. the xgf field are CannyLists - CannyStrings Curved_Segs - Segemented Strings from Canny_file.seg.gf Ellipses - Ellipses from Canny_file.el.gf Merged_Ellipses - Ellipses from Canny_file.el.gf Ellipses_Coords - Major and Minor Axes drawn Ellipses_Center - Center point drawn xgf is Written by Anthony Tai and G Matas ELF is Written by Paul Hoad and G Matas Please note some bugs exist, we hold no responsibility for any mistakes caused through the uses of these programmes or as a consequence of using these programmes.

OPTIONS

PGMtoELF image.pgm produces elliptical output from PGM input PGMtoELFMatch image.pgm produces elliptical output from PGM input, but tries some matching of curves beforehand (still in early stages of development, not recommended for use) ELF is a shell script and so if you look at it you will see that it runs a series of programmes. These programmes do have options and you may be interested in changing some of them to suit your needs. A list of the usage is shown below which is given when no options are placed on the command line.

AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 1992 by Paul Hoad.

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