https://sites.temple.edu/dwolf/files/2020/06/Sophistic-method.pdf
Since neither Plato’s nor the general sense of “sophist” encourages an account of sophistic method and practice, it is questionable whether there is an alternative approach. The follow-ing discussion offers a sort of middle course by suggesting alterations to Plato’s sense of “sophist” that in turn yield a subset of sophists in the general sense. What is ultimately important here ...
https://cis.temple.edu/~latecki/Papers/cvpr00.pdf
Abstract The Core Experiment CE-Shape-1 for shape descriptors performed for the MPEG-7 standard gave a unique oppor-tunity to compare various shape descriptors for non-rigid shapes with a single closed contour. There are two main dif-ferences with respect to other comparison results reported in the literature: (1) For each shape descriptor, the exper-iments were carried out by an institute ...
https://cis.temple.edu/~latecki/Papers/CSD_CVPR10.pdf
Abstract In this paper, we propose a new shape decomposition method, called convex shape decomposition. We formal-ize the convex decomposition problem as an integer linear programming problem, and obtain approximate optimal so-lution by minimizing the total cost of decomposition under some concavity constraints. Our method is based on Morse theory and combines information from multiple Morse ...