Residuals + directional gaps = skeletons

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 343-353

  Cardoner, Rafael ^a   Thomas, Federico ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE ROBÒTICA I INFORMÀTICA INDUSTRIAL CSIC UPC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mathematical morphology; Run length encoding; Skeletons; Thinning algorithms

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CODING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

RUN LENGTH ENCODING; THINNING ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0031124937     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(97)00021-4     Document Type: Article

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