A Comment on “a Fast Parallel Algorithm for Thinning Digital Patterns”

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1986, Pages 239-242

  Lu H E ^a   Wang, P S P ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

parallel algorithm; pplications; skeletonization; thinning digital patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976711904     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/5666.5670     Document Type: Article

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