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Complexity as a Sclae-Space for the Medial Axis Transform

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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/5954
Date01 January 1993
CreatorsChaney, Ronald
Source SetsM.I.T. Theses and Dissertation
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
Format28 p., 213247 bytes, 383424 bytes, application/octet-stream, application/pdf
RelationAIM-1397

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