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Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 672509, 5 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/672509
Research Article

Reliable RANSAC Using a Novel Preprocessing Model

Xiaoyan Wang,1 Hui Zhang,2 and Sheng Liu1

1School of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China
2College of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China

Received 8 December 2012; Revised 8 January 2013; Accepted 17 January 2013

Academic Editor: Carlo Cattani

Copyright © 2013 Xiaoyan Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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