A segmentation-free approach for skeletonization of gray-scale images via anisotropic vector diffusion

Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Zeyun, Yu ^a   Bajaj, Chandrajit ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; DIFFUSION; EDGE DETECTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); LINEAR SYSTEMS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERFORMANCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; VECTORS;

IMAGE DEFORMATION; IMAGE SYNTHESIS; VECTOR DIFFUSION; VECTOR FIELDS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 5044233470     PISSN: 10636919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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