Title :
Image Approximation from Gray Scale ``Medial Axes´´
Author :
Wang, Shyuan ; Wu, Angela Y. ; Rosenfeld, Azriel
Author_Institution :
Computer Vision Laboratory, Computer Science Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.
Abstract :
Several types of gray-weighted ``medial axes´´ have been defined. This paper shows that one of them, the min-max medial axis, can be used to reconstruct good approximations to the original image based on a relatively small amount of information.
Keywords :
Computational efficiency; Computer science; Computer vision; Contracts; Image processing; Image reconstruction; Image segmentation; Night vision; Pattern recognition; Image approximation; image processing; medial axis transformations; pattern recognition;
Journal_Title :
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TPAMI.1981.4767172
