Skeletonization of gray-scale image from incomplete boundaries

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 877-880

  Li, Quannan ^a   Bai, Xiang ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Incomplete boundary; Isotropic vector diffusion; Skeleton Strength Map; Skeletonization

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY SEGMENTS; DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; GRADIENT MAGNITUDE; GRAY-SCALE IMAGES; INCOMPLETE BOUNDARIES; INCOMPLETE BOUNDARY; ISOTROPIC VECTOR DIFFUSION; ISOTROPIC VECTORS; SKELETON STRENGTH MAP; SKELETONIZATION; SKELETONIZATION ALGORITHM;

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGING SYSTEMS;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 69949178421     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2008.4711895     Document Type: Conference Paper

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