  The present work shows a novel fractal dimension method for shape analysis.
The proposed technique extracts descriptors from the shape by applying a
multiscale approach to the calculus of the fractal dimension of that shape. The
fractal dimension is obtained by the application of the curvature scale-space
technique to the original shape. Through the application of a multiscale
transform to the dimension calculus, it is obtained a set of numbers
(descriptors) capable of describing with a high precision the shape in
analysis. The obtained descriptors are validated in a classification process.
The results demonstrate that the novel technique provides descriptors highly
reliable, confirming the precision of the proposed method.
