Basic Properties
- Orientation specifies the orientation of the separator: Horizontal, Vertical.
- Length specifies the maximum and minimum lengths of the separator.
Advanced Properties
- Min. relative length sets the minimum relative length of a separator. This is a number ranging from 0 to 100. The relative length of a separator is calculated as [length of the separator]/[length of the search area along the separator]. Objects of smaller relative lengths will be ignored.
- Penalty limit for length. The minimum coefficient by which the hypothesis quality may be multiplied as a penalty for its length. When estimating the quality of a hypothesis, the hypothesis may be penalized for the length of the separator: the longer the separator object, the higher the quality of the hypothesis. The highest quality of 1 is assigned to a separator whose length is the same as the search area. When the relative length of the separator decreases from 1 to 0, the quality of the hypothesis decreases in direct proportion from 1 to Penalty limit for length.
- Fits entirely within search area specifies that the separator must fit entirely within its search area. Clear this option to find separators which overlap the search area.
- Max. space length specifies the maximum distance between two separator objects that can be included in one hypothesis and considered to be one separator.
- Max. relative length of space specifies the maximum relative distance between two separator objects that can be included in one hypothesis and considered to be one separator. The relative distance is calculated as follows: [distance between separator fragments]/[total length of the separator]. If the Max. space length and the Max. relative length of space have both been specified, the program will use the shorter of the two distances.
- Orthogonal shift of space specifies the maximum relative distance between two parallel separator objects (along a perpendicular line) that can be included in one hypothesis and considered to be one separator.