Title
Efficient Polygonal Approximation of Digital Curves via Monte Carlo Optimization
Abstract
A novel stochastic searching scheme based on the Monte Carlo optimization is presented for polygonal approximation (PA) problem. We propose to combine the split-and-merge based local optimization and the Monte Carlo sampling, to give an efficient stochastic optimization scheme. Our approach, in essence, is a well-designed Basin-Hopping scheme, which performs stochastic hopping among the reduced energy peaks. Experiment results on various benchmarks show that our method achieves high-quality solutions with lower computational costs, and outperforms most of state-of-the-art algorithms for PA problem.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/ICPR.2010.857
ICPR
Keywords
Field
DocType
efficient stochastic optimization scheme,well-designed basin-hopping scheme,efficient polygonal approximation,monte carlo optimization,pa problem,experiment result,digital curves,monte carlo sampling,high-quality solution,novel stochastic,lower computational cost,local optimization,monte carlo,merging,stochastic optimization,sampling methods,optimization,stochastic processes,approximation algorithms,computational geometry,monte carlo methods
Stochastic optimization,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Monte Carlo integration,Stochastic tunneling,Monte Carlo method,Mathematical optimization,Pattern recognition,Global optimization,Algorithm,Hybrid Monte Carlo,Dynamic Monte Carlo method,Monte Carlo molecular modeling
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
4
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiuzhuang Zhou138020.26
Yao Lu29819.25