A Principal Component Analysis (PCA) based Method for Shape Extraction
Leontin Tuţă, Ioan Nicolaescu, Radu Mariescu-Istodor, Angela Digulescu · Journal of Military Technology · 2019
This paper proposes an algorithm that uses principal component analysis (PCA) in order to extract some of the most commonly used shapes in different design or drawing based applications.Other methods are also discussed in comparison to PCA, the advantages and disadvantages being underlined in each case.Simulations are performed in Matlab for a number of scenarios, with the purpose to test the method's reliability in different cases, especially unfavorable ones.A concept for generalizing the functionality of the algorithm is also presented, and the limitations of this concept are discussed.