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hough transform

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.94 in modern English

Syllables
hough -trans-form
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A feature extraction technique used in computer vision and digital image processing to find imperfect instances of objects within a certain class of shapes by a voting procedure.

Etymology

After Paul Hough, who held a related patent from 1962.

Inflected Forms

Hough transforms (plural)

Questions

What does hough transform mean?
A feature extraction technique used in computer vision and digital image processing to find imperfect instances of objects within a certain class of shapes by a voting procedure.
Where does hough transform come from?
After Paul Hough, who held a related patent from 1962.

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