Thinning methodologies-a comprehensive survey

L Lam, SW Lee, CY Suen - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & …, 1992 - computer.org
A comprehensive survey of thinning methodologies is presented. A wide range of thinning
algorithms, including iterative deletion of pixels and nonpixel-based methods, is covered …

Digital topology: Introduction and survey

TY Kong, A Rosenfeld - Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, 1989 - Elsevier
Digital topology deals with the topological properties of digital images: or, more generally, of
discrete arrays in two or more dimensions. It provides the theoretical foundations for …

[图书][B] Digital geometry: Geometric methods for digital picture analysis

R Klette, A Rosenfeld - 2004 - books.google.com
Digital geometry is about deriving geometric information from digital pictures. The field
emerged from its mathematical roots some forty-years ago through work in computer-based …

Hierarchic voronoi skeletons

RL Ogniewicz, O Kübler - Pattern recognition, 1995 - Elsevier
Robust and time-efficient skeletonization of a (planar) shape, which is connectivity
preserving and based on Euclidean metrics, can be achieved by first regularizing the …

Simulating the grassfire transform using an active contour model

F Leymarie, MD Levine - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & …, 1992 - computer.org
A method for shape description of planar objects that integrates both region and boundary
features is presented. The method is an implementation of a 2D dynamic grassfire that relies …

Extraction of binary character/graphics images from grayscale document images

M Kamel, A Zhao - CVGIP: Graphical Models and Image Processing, 1993 - Elsevier
The extraction of binary character/graphics images from gray-scale document images with
background pictures, shadows, highlight, smear, and smudge is a common critical image …

Novel approach to automated fingerprint recognition

A Wahab, SH Chin, EC Tan - IEE Proceedings-Vision, Image and Signal …, 1998 - IET
The paper describes an enhanced fingerprint recognition system consisting of image
preprocessing, feature extraction and matching that runs accurately and effectively on a …

Generating skeletons and centerlines from the distance transform

CW Niblack, PB Gibbons, DW Capson - CVGIP: Graphical Models and …, 1992 - Elsevier
We describe an algorithm for generating connected skeletons of objects in a binary image.
The algorithm combines essentially all desirable properties of a skeletonization method:(1) …

Conflict of laws in aircraft securitisation: jurisdictional and material aspects of the 1998 Unidroit Reform Project relating to aircraft equipment.

JA Krupski - 2001 - library-archives.canada.ca
Abstract In June 1998, a Steering and Revisions Committee of the International Institute for
the Unification of Private Law (Unidroit) fleshed out the final version of a" Draft Unidroit …

A thinning algorithm by contour generation

P Kwok - Communications of the ACM, 1988 - dl.acm.org
A thinning algorithm by contour generation Page 1 ARTICLES A THINNING ALGORITHM
BY CONTOUR GENERATION A new contour generating serial algorithm is faster and more …