The medial axis skeleton is a thin line graph that preserves the topology of a region. The skeleton has often been cited as a useful representation for shape description, region interpretation, and object recognition. Unfortunately, the computation of the skeleton is extremely sensitive to variations in the bounding contour. In this paper, we describe a robust method for computing the medial axis skeleton across a variety of scales. The resulting scale-space is parametric with the complexity of the skeleton, where the complexity is defined as the number of branches in the skeleton.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/5954 |
| Date | 01 January 1993 |
| Creators | Chaney, Ronald |
| Source Sets | M.I.T. Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | 28 p., 213247 bytes, 383424 bytes, application/octet-stream, application/pdf |
| Relation | AIM-1397 |
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