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¹Laboratorium voor Technische Natuurkunde, Technische Hogeschool Delft, Delft, The Netherlands.

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

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Digitizing straight lines causes information loss, leading to inaccuracies in measurements. This study introduces parameters to represent digitized lines and defines segments that could generate them, improving digital geometry understanding.

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Area of Science:

Computer Vision
Digital Geometry
Image Processing

Background:

Digitizing continuous straight line segments on a regular grid results in information loss.
Discrete representations like chaincode strings are convenient but introduce intrinsic inaccuracies in property measurements (e.g., line length).

Purpose of the Study:

To analyze fundamental properties of straight line segment quantization.
To develop methods for accurate digital representation and analysis of straight lines.

Main Methods:

Proving that every "straight" chaincode string can be uniquely represented by four integer parameters.
Deriving a mathematical expression for the set of continuous line segments that could generate a given chaincode string.

Main Results:

Established a unique four-integer parameter representation for straight chaincode strings.
Provided a mathematical framework to identify all possible original continuous line segments from a digitized representation.

Conclusions:

The proposed parameters offer a precise way to characterize digitized straight lines.
The derived mathematical expression enhances understanding of the relationship between continuous and discrete line representations in digital geometry.