Penalized-distance volumetric skeleton algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 195-206

  Bitter, Ingmar ^a,b   Kaufman, Arie E ^a,b   Sato, Mie ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Stony Brook   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Automatic preprocessing; Centerline; Medial axis; Modeling; Skeleton

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICAL SKELETONS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DATA PROCESSING; DATA REDUCTION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0035385756     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2945.942688     Document Type: Article

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