A survey of Hough Transform. Issue 3 (March 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mukhopadhyay, Priyanka; Chaudhuri, Bidyut B.
• Is Part Of: Pattern recognition. Volume 48:Issue 3(2015:Mar.)
• Page Start: 993
• Page End: 1010
• Publication Date: 2015-03
• Subjects: Pattern perception -- Periodicals; Perception des structures -- Périodiques; Patroonherkenning; 006.4
• DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2014.08.027
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0031-3203

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="author" id="ab0005"> <title id="sect0005">Abstract</title> <sec> <p id="sp0090">In 1962 Hough earned the patent for a method <xref id="cr0150" rid="bib1">[1]</xref>, popularly called Hough Transform (HT) that efficiently identifies lines in images. It is an important tool even after the golden jubilee year of existence, as evidenced by more than 2500 research papers dealing with its variants, generalizations, properties and applications in diverse fields. The current paper is a survey of HT and its variants, their limitations and the modifications made to overcome them, the implementation issues in software and hardware, and applications in various fields. Our survey, along with more than 200 references, will help the researchers and students to get a comprehensive view on HT and guide them in applying it properly to their problems of interest.</p> </sec> </abstract>