Digital distance transforms in 3D images using information from neighbourhoods up to 5 × 5 × 5

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 24-53

  Svensson, Stina ^a   Borgefors, Gunilla ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chamfer algorithm; Distance transform; Extended neighborhood; Local distance; Rotation invariant; Volume image

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL WATERMARKING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTIMIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

CHAMFER ALGORITHM; DIGITAL DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; FEATURE VOXEL; NONFEATURE VOXEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES; WEIGHTED DISTANCE TRANSFORM;

IMAGE UNDERSTANDING;

EID: 0042029328     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.2002.0976     Document Type: Article

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