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In this paper, we introduce a new approach to the fitting problem for elliptical segments. In a way other than generally described in literature, we don't fit elliptical curve segments but elliptical area segments. Because of the numerical stability of area-based moments, this fitting is generally better than the results obtained by the common used algebraic fitting methods. Further advantages of the moment-based method are the affine invariance of the results, smaller variance and bias, and the possibility to investigate exactly the theoretical model. The goodness of the new fitting method is demonstrated by some numerical experiments.
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Voss, K., Suesse, H., Neubauer, R. (1995). Moment-based invariant fitting of elliptical segments. In: Hlaváč, V., Šára, R. (eds) Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns. CAIP 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 970. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60268-2_345
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