An effective skeletonization method based on adaptive selection of contour points

Proceedings - 3rd International Conference on Information Technology and Applications, ICITA 2005

Volumn I, Issue , 2005, Pages 644-649

  Morrison, Paul ^a   Zou, Ju Jia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

CONTOUR POINTS; DELAUNAY TRIANGULATION; PIXELS; SKELETONIZATION;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646763515     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICITA.2005.61     Document Type: Conference Paper

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