Weighted distance transforms generalized to modules and their computation on point lattices

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2453-2474

  Fouard, Céline ^a   Strand, Robin ^a   Borgefors, Gunilla ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chamfer algorithm; Distance transform; Non standard grids; Weighted distance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; INVARIANCE;

CHAMFER ALGORITHMS; DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; NON-STANDARD GRIDS; WEIGHTED DISTANCES;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 34247607210     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2007.01.001     Document Type: Article

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