BAYESIAN ALIGNMENT OF SIMILARITY SHAPES.

ABSTRACT: We develop a Bayesian model for the alignment of two point configurations under the full similarity transformations of rotation, translation and scaling. Other work in this area has concentrated on rigid body transformations, where scale information is preserved, motivated by problems involving molecular data; this is known as form analysis. We concentrate on a Bayesian formulation for statistical shape analysis. We generalize the model introduced by Green and Mardia for the pairwise alignment of two unlabeled configurations to full similarity transformations by introducing a scaling factor to the model. The generalization is not straight-forward, since the model needs to be reformulated to give good performance when scaling is included. We illustrate our method on the alignment of

SUBMITTER: Mardia KV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3774796 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature