Order independent homotopic thinning for binary and grey tone anchored skeletons

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 687-702

  Ranwez, Vincent ^a   Soille, Pierre ^b  

^a LIRMM   (France)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anchor point; Crest line; Homotopy; Mathematical morphology; Skeleton; Thinning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING;

HOMOTOPIC THINNING;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036534011     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(01)00146-5     Document Type: Article

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