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Accession Number:
ADA279817
Title:
Complexity as a Scale-Space for the Medial Axis Transform
Descriptive Note:
Technical memo.
Corporate Author:
MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH CAMBRIDGE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LAB
Report Date:
1993-01-01
Pagination or Media Count:
20.0
Abstract:
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.
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE