Comparison between the morphological skeleton and morphological shape decomposition

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 951-957

  Reinhardt, Joseph M ^a   Higgins, William Evan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Image analysis; Mathematical morphology; Morphological shape decomposition; Morphological skeleton; Shape analysis; Shape representation

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

MORPHOLOGICAL SHAPE DECOMPOSITION; MORPHOLOGICAL SKELETON; SHAPE ANALYSIS; SHAPE REPRESENTATION;

MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 0030247802     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.537351     Document Type: Article

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