Fitzgibbon, Pilu, Fisher: Direct Least Squares Fitting of Ellipses

Andrew W. Fitzgibbon, Maurizio Pilu, and Robert B. Fisher
Direct least-squares fitting of ellipses,
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 21(5), 476--480, May 1999

• Download the paper (PDF, 126K)
• The fabulous java demo
• Matlab code. This is a more bulletproof version than that in the paper, incorporating scaling to reduce roundoff error, correction of behaviour when the input data are on a perfect hyperbola, and returns the geometric parameters of the ellipse, rather than the coefficients of the quadratic form.
• BibTeX reference

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