ABSTRACT
The fundamental problem in the existing splitting techniques and also in the split and merge techniques is the initial segmentation. Ansari and Delp [6] try to resolve this problem using curvature extreme points as the initial set of break points. An alternative approach to initial segmentation for chain coded curves. The initial segmentation is done introducing the concept of rank of a point defined in the following section. The split and merge is done using the absolute perpendicular distance of a point from the line segment joining the initium and the terminus of a curve segment as the criterion function.
