This paper deals with a novel local arc length estimator for curves in gray-scale images.The method first estimates a cubic spline curve fit for the boundary points using the gray-level information of the nearby pixels,and then computes the sum of the spline segments’lengths.In this model,the second derivatives and y coordinates at the knots are required in the computation;the spline polynomial coefficients need not be computed explicitly.We provide the algorithm pseudo code for estimation and preprocessing,both taking linear time.Implementation shows that the proposed model gains a smaller relative error than other state-of-the-art methods.
