Morphological decomposition of 2-D binary shapes into simpler shape parts

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 759-769

  Xu, Jianning ^a  

^a The College of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Mathematical morphology; Shape decomposition; Skeleton transform; Structural shape analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

MORPHOLOGICAL SHAPE SEGMENTATION; SHAPE DECOMPOSITION; SKELETON TRANSFORM; STRUCTURAL SHAPE ANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL BINARY SHAPES;

MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 0030172357     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-8655(96)00037-2     Document Type: Article

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