Automatic plantography footprint database searching method

In this note we present a very simple database searching method for footprints of the desired flatfoot abnormality. The method is based on the new shape-measure introduced in [7]. The used measure describes flatfoot abnormalities very well, do not use reference points determined manually, so is it easily implemented for fully automatic footprints comparison task. Experiments carried out on a number of plantograms, with the help of the software prepared by the first author, approved good searching results of the described method.