Shape Smoothing Using Medial Axis Properties

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn PAMI-8, Issue 4, 1986, Pages 512-520

  Ho, Seng Beng ^a   Dyer, Charles R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary smoothing; medial axis; shape curvature and prominence; skeleton pruning; symmetric axis

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - ALGORITHMS;

BOUNDARY SMOOTHING; MEDIAL AXIS TRANSFORM; SKELETON PRUNING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0022752206     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.1986.4767815     Document Type: Article

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