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Digital Analytical Geometry: How Do I Define a Digital Analytical Object?

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Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA 2015)

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This paper is meant as a short survey on analytically defined digital geometric objects. We will start by giving some elements on digitizations and their relations to continuous geometry. We will then explain how, from simple assumptions about properties a digital object should have, one can build mathematically sound digital objects. We will end with open problems and challenges for the future.

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Andres, E. (2015). Digital Analytical Geometry: How Do I Define a Digital Analytical Object?. In: Barneva, R., Bhattacharya, B., Brimkov, V. (eds) Combinatorial Image Analysis. IWCIA 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9448. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26145-4_1

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