A medial axis extraction algorithm for the processing of combustion flame images

Proceedings - 6th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 182-186

  Qiu, Tian ^a   Yan, Yong ^a   Lu, Gang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flame; Image processing; Medial axis; Shape representation

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION FLAMES; COMBUSTION PARAMETERS; COMBUSTION RESEARCH; EFFICIENT ALGORITHM; EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; FLAME; FLAME SHAPES; MEDIAL AXIS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION; SHAPE REPRESENTATION;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH;

COMBUSTION;

EID: 80053017326     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIG.2011.174     Document Type: Conference Paper

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