Binary image thinning using autowaves generated by PCNN

Neural Processing Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-62

  Shang, Lifeng ^a   Yi, Zhang ^a   Ji, Luping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Autowaves; Binary images thinning; Grassfire; Medial axis transformation; Pulse coupled neuron network

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

AUTOWAVES; BINARY IMAGES THINNING; GRASSFIRE; MEDIAL AXIS TRANSFORMATION; PULSE COUPLED NEURAL NETWORK (PCNN); PULSE COUPLED NEURON NETWORKS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33845623435     PISSN: 13704621     EISSN: 1573773X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11063-006-9030-9     Document Type: Article

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