A dynamic method for dominant point detection

Detecting dominant points is an important step for shape representation. Most of dominant point detection methods attend to preset or find the region of support of each point. In this paper, we demonstrate an improved method for determining the region of support in the dominant point detection. Instead of setting the regions of support for points independently, the region of support dynamically depending on the previous region of support. The experimental results show that the proposed method is effective in detecting dominant points. 2003 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.