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Hi All,

I am trying to write a program that will take a straight line,circle,square or some regular geometric shape as an image.And tell which geometric figure it is.Anybody give me some idea where to start.

Thanks and Regards

Arka

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I might be wrong, but I think you should do your research on image recognition instead of pattern recognition, and you might find a solution easier that way. otherwise, I don't know anything about either recognition, just thought I'd give an idea.

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Are you really interested in looking at the pixels of an image one by one and then trying to determine if there is a recognizable shape there?
Take a piece of graph paper, draw a shape and go thru it starting at 0,0 to the ending x,y. Record when there is a pixel that is part of the shape.

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Do you really have to do this? Pattern/shape recognition is possibly the hardest thing ever to program.
If you must then you have a choice of three main strategies - look for lines/edges, count sides & corners etc OR take the shape as a solid "block", rotate/resize it to some standard size & position, the compare it with a library of pre-defined shapes to see which it fits most closely OR write an adaptive learning system that "evolves" to "learn" shapes that are presented to it.
Option 2 is probably the easiest to code, but also the least generalisable.

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