COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE UNDERSTANDING, cilt.81, sa.1, ss.1-25, 2001 (SCI-Expanded)
Since parametric and implicit forms have complementary advantages with respect to certain geometric operations, it can be useful to convert from one form to the other. In this paper, a new method for converting between parametric and implicit Forms based on polar/spherical coordinate representations is introduced. (C) 2001 Academic Press.