Title :
The path-based distance skeleton: a flexible tool to analyse silhouette shape
Author :
Di Baja, Gabriella Sanniti ; Thiel, Edouard
Author_Institution :
Istituto di Cibernetica, CNR, Arco Felice, Italy
Abstract :
The path-based distance skeleton is used to analyse the shape of a digital silhouette, perceived as the superposition of elongated regions. The skeleton is suitably decomposed and the resulting components are used to represent and describe the corresponding regions
Keywords :
image processing; digital silhouette; elongated regions superposition; path-based distance skeleton; pattern decomposition; silhouette shape; Cities and towns; Euclidean distance; Geometry; Humans; Merging; Pattern analysis; Shape; Skeleton; Thickness measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Pattern Recognition, 1994. Vol. 2 - Conference B: Computer Vision & Image Processing., Proceedings of the 12th IAPR International. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Jerusalem
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-6270-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICPR.1994.577041
