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This paper is an extension of our previous paper to improve the capabi
lity of detecting corners, We proposed a method of boundary smoothing
for curvature estimation using a constrained regularization technique
in the previous paper, We propose another approach to boundary smoothi
ng for curvature estimation in this paper to improve the capability of
detecting corners, The method is based on a minimization strategy kno
wn as mean field annealing which is a deterministic approximation to s
imulated annealing, It removes the noise while preserving corners very
well. Thus, we can detect corners easier and better in this approach
than in the constrained regularization approach. Finally, some matchin
g results based on the corners detected by corner sharpness in the mea
n field annealing approach are presented as a demonstration of the pow
er of the proposed algorithm.