Title: Elements of sketching with words

Authors: B. Mohammed Imran; M.M. Sufyan Beg

Addresses: Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi 110025, India. ' Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi 110025, India

Abstract: In modern day crimes and terrorism, it has become imperative to identify by features the criminals who are involved and who have caused such a disaster. The current work is a basic step towards such an important identification process. In this direction, we begin our work with the identification of fuzzy geometric shapes, which resemble with the actual geometric shapes fuzzily. Zadeh proposed computing with words (CW) which deals with perceptions, where the perceptions are mostly fuzzy, while the measurements are always found to be crisp. On the similar lines, sketching with words (SW) is a technique in which the objects of sketching are the perceptions described in uncertain, vague, imprecise words and prepositions described in natural language (NL). We propose SW here to represent geometric figures using membership functions to estimate f-geometry.

Keywords: sketching with words; fuzzy images; fuzzy geometry; f-principle; f-theorem; fuzzy geometric objects; geometric shapes; geometric figures; sketching automation; perceptions; fuzzy sketches; image retrieval; feature identification.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGCRSIS.2011.043371

International Journal of Granular Computing, Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems, 2011 Vol.2 No.2, pp.166 - 178

Received: 13 Jan 2011
Accepted: 16 Jun 2011

Published online: 28 Feb 2015 *

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