This work presents the rst direct method for specii-cally tting ellipses in the least squares sense. Previous approaches used either generic conic tting or relied on iterative methods to recover elliptic solutions. The proposed method is (i) ellipse-speciic, (ii) directly solved by a generalised eigen-system, (iii) has a desirable low-eccentricity bias, and (iv) is robust to noise. We provide a...

This work presents a new e cient method for tting ellipses to scattered data. Previous algorithms either tted general conics or were computationally expensive. By minimizing the algebraic distance subject to the constraint 4ac b = 1 the new method incorporates the ellipticity constraint into the normalization factor. The proposed method combines several advantages: (i) It is ellipse-speci c so ...

The real-time performance of a fundamental frequency estimation algorithm depends not only on its computational eeciency but also on its ability to obtain accurate estimates from short signal segments. Previous frequency-domain algorithms make use of spectral analysis algorithms that require the application of a window function, which cause them to fail when signal segments are short and their ...