Image matching based on contour is an important issue in computer vision
but now there is no mature algorithm that can solve the problems of partial contour matching and deformation caused by non-similar transformation and non-rigid transformation.According to the conclusions that partial contour structure has relative stability and a good description need to merge the contour's local and global information
a local scale description method is proposed which is scale
rotation invariant
deformation tolerant and initial point independence.On this basis
a contour matching algorithm is proposed based on improved DTW.Experimental results show that the proposed method can realize the partial matching between open contour and open contour as well as closed contour.Its matching precision is 92% on average