Voronoi diagrams of polygons: A framework for shape representation

Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 355-378

  Mayya, Niranjan ^a,c,d   Rajan, V T ^b  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Unit#10 ^*  (Canada)

^d Pulse Microsystems   (Canada)

Author keywords

Medical axis transform; Shape representation; Skeletons; Voronoi diagrams of polygons

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000447829     PISSN: 09249907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00123352     Document Type: Article

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