Image recognition is one of the most important field in image processing that in recent decades had much attention .Due to expansion of related fields with image processing and various application of this science in machine vision, military science, geography, aerospace and artificial intelligence and lots of other aspects, out stand the importance of this subject.One of the most important aspe...

The Hough transform is a common technique in computer vision and pattern recognition for recognizing patterns of points. We describe an efficient probabilistic algorithm for a Monte-Carlo approximation to the Hough transform. Our algorithm requires substantially less computation and storage than the standard Hough transform when applied to patterns that are easily recognized by humans. The prob...

Extraction of primitives, such as lines, edges and curves, is often a key step in an image analysis procedure. The most popular technique for curve detection is based on the Hough transform. The original formulation of the Hough transform is inherently discrete. It is therefore difficult to assess which properties are inherent to the transform-based technique and which are due to its discrete n...

| We describe an algorithm for the detection of ellipse shapes in images, using the Randomized Hough Transform. The algorithm is compared to a standard implementation of the Hough Transform, and the Probabilistic Hough Transform. Tests are performed using both noise-free and noisy images, and several real-world images. The algorithm was found to give improvements in accuracy, and a reduction in...

The Hough transform is a popular method for detecting complex forms in digital images. However, the technique is not very robust since several parameters that determine the scope of the detection results, such as quantization thresholds and intervals, must first be defined. In the present paper, we propose to enhance shape detection with the Hough transform through fuzzy analysis. One chief dra...

The objective of this paper is to investigate a number of circle detection methods which are based on variations of the Hough Transform. The methods considered include the standard Hough Transform, the Fast Hough Transform of Li et al, two space saving approaches which are bused on those devised by Gerig and Klein and a twostage method. We experimentally compare the performance of the methods a...