Iterative generalization of morphological skeleton

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Udrea, Radu Mihnea ^a   Vizireanu, Nicolae ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE REPRESENTATION; ITERATIVE GENERALIZATION; SKELETON REPRESENTATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; SET THEORY;

BINARY IMAGES;

EID: 34249072497     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2713739     Document Type: Article

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