Object recognition by partial shape matching guided search

Abstract

We propose a fast partial shape matching guided 2D object recognition algorithm to significantly accelerate recognition/matching of full (non-occluded) or partially occluded objects. The significant increase in speed comes from the fact that the search space is reduced to only those combinations of regions in the neighborhood of potential partial matches, as opposed to all combinations of regions as was done in our prior work [3]. Theoretical calculations and experimental results are provided to demonstrate effectiveness of the proposed algorithm on real images.