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Abstract
We propose a two-step nonparametric method for detecting the boundary curve of an object in an image. First we treat boundary points as change-points on lines across the image, and identify them by the one-sided kernel smoothing method. After obtaining potential boundary points, we use the principal curve method to smooth these points in order to obtain an estimate of smooth boundary curve, Computer simulations are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the method.