Image thinning using pulse coupled neural network

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1075-1084

  Gu, Xiaodong ^a,b   Yu, Daoheng ^b   Zhang, Liming ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Binary image thinning; PCNN; Skeleton

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; VISION;

ANIMAL VISUAL CORTEX; IMAGE THINNING; PULSE PARALLEL TRANSMISSION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 2942527046     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2004.03.005     Document Type: Article

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