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In this paper we consider some questions related to the orientation of shapes when the standard method does not work. A typical situation is when a shapes under consideration has more than two axes of symmetry or if the shape is n-fold rotationally symmetric, when n > 2. Those situations are well studied in literature. Here, we give a very simple proof of the main result from [11] and slightly adapt their definition of principal axes for rotationally symmetric shapes. We show some desirable properties that hold if the orientation of such shapes is computed in such a modified way.
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Žunić, J., Kopanja, L. (2005). On Shape Orientation When the Standard Method Does Not Work. In: Sanfeliu, A., Cortés, M.L. (eds) Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications. CIARP 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3773. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11578079_86
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