An Unified Multiscale Framework for Planar, Surface, and Curve Skeletonization

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 30-45

  Jalba, Andrei C ^a   Sobiecki, Andre ^b   Telea, Alexandru C ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

based shape processing; Medial axes; Physically; Skeleton regularization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY;

MASS-TRANSPORT PROCESS; MEDIAL AXES; MULTI-SCALE FRAMEWORKS; MULTISCALE REPRESENTATIONS; NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION; PHYSICALLY; SHAPE PROCESSING; SKELETON REGULARIZATION;

MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; SKELETON; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SKELETON;

EID: 84961620572     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2015.2414420     Document Type: Article

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