Description of the symmetric convex random closed sets as zonotopes from their Feret diameters
Pub. online: 3 January 2017
Type: Research Article
Received
24 October 2016
24 October 2016
Revised
7 December 2016
7 December 2016
Accepted
14 December 2016
14 December 2016
Published
3 January 2017
3 January 2017
Abstract
In this paper, the 2-D random closed sets (RACS) are studied by means of the Feret diameter, also known as the caliper diameter. More specifically, it is shown that a 2-D symmetric convex RACS can be approximated as precisely as we want by some random zonotopes (polytopes formed by the Minkowski sum of line segments) in terms of the Hausdorff distance. Such an approximation is fully defined from the Feret diameter of the 2-D convex RACS. Particularly, the moments of the random vector representing the face lengths of the zonotope approximation are related to the moments of the Feret diameter random process of the RACS.
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